ADDRESSES  AND  PROCEEDINGS, 


INCLUDING  TIIE  ORATION  PRONOUNCED  BY  THE  LIBRARY 

OF  THE 

REV.  DR.  BUSHNELL,  ptw  'V  fT  ”  '  ' 

AT  THE 


COMMEMORATIVE  CELEBRATION, 


HELD  JULY  26th,  1865, 


IN  HONOR  OF  THE 


ALUMNI  OF  YALE  COLLEGE 


WHO  WERE 

IN  THE  MILITARY  OR  NAVAL  SERVICE 

OF  THE 


UNITED  STATES 
DURING  THE  RECENT  WAR; 


TOGETHER  WITH  THE  NAMES  COMPRISED  IN 


T  IEEE  III  BOLL  OIE1  ZETOITOIE^.. 


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THE  CELEBRATION. 


Gratum  est,  quod  patriae  civem  populoque  dedisti, 

Si  facis,  ut  patrle  sit  idoneus,  utilis  agris, 

Utilis  et  bellorum  et  pacis  rebus  agendis. 

Plurimum  enim  intererit,  quibus  artibus  et  quibus  hunc  tu 
Moribus  instituas.  Juvenal ,  Sat.  xiv.  ver.  64. 


«♦* 


The  subject  of  honoring  the  sons  of  Yale  who  had  served  in 
the  War,  by  a  public  celebration,  was  first  brought  before  the 
Alumni  of  the  College,  at  a  meeting  informally  called  at  the 
Hall  of  the  Society  of  the  Brothers  in  Unity,  after  the  annual 
Presentation  Day  collation,  June  twenty-first,  1865,  the  Hon. 
Henry  Dutton,  LL.  D.,  being  in  the  Chair.  After  some  con¬ 
sultation,  and  comparison  of  views,  it  was  here  unanimously 
resolved,  that  such  a  commemoration  should  be  observed  upon 
Wednesday,  July  twenty-sixth,  the  day  preceding  that  of  the 
next  Commencement.  The  meeting  then  proceeded  to  appoint 
the  following  Committees  to  take  charge  of  the  necessary 
arrangements  for  the  occasion  : 

General  Committee  in  charge  (including  the  Standing  Com¬ 
mittee  of  the  Alumni  Association)  : 


Hon.  Samuel  B.  Buggies,  LL.  D., 
William  M.  Evarts,  Esq.,  LL.  D., 
Hon.  Joseph  B.  Varnum,  Jr., 
Hon.  Edwards  Pierrepont, 

Landon  Ketchum,  Esq., 

Hon.  Maunsell  B.  Field, 

Charles  J.  Stille,  Esq., 

Hon.  Andrew  D.  White, 

Hon.  Elias  W.  Leavenworth, 


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Hon.  Chauncey  M.  Depew, 

Hon.  Dwight  Foster, 

Robert  Brown,  Jr.,  Esq., 

Hon.  J.  Hammond  Trumbull, 

Hon.  William  W.  Boardman,  LL.  D., 
Rev.  Leonard  Bacon,  D.  D., 

Rev.  Samuel  W.  S.  Dutton,  D.  D., 
William  B.  Bristol,  Esq., 

Charles  Robinson,  Esq., 

Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman, 

Richard  S.  Fellowes,  Esq., 

Hon.  Eleazar  K.  Foster, 

Henry  C.  Kingsley,  Esq., 

Horace  Day,  Esq., 

Joshua  Coit,  Esq., 

Gen.  William  H.  Russell, 

Prof.  Noah  Porter,  D.  D., 

Prof.  Edward  E.  Salisbury, 

Prof.  Elias  Loomis,  LL.  D., 

Prof.  James  M.  Hoppin, 

Prof.  Timothy  Dwight, 

Prof.  James  Hadley, 

Prof.  Thomas  A.  Thacher, 

Prof.  Hubert  A.  Newton, 

Prof.  Daniel  C.  Gilman, 

Prof.  Cyrus  Northrop, 

Prof.  George  J.  Brush, 

Prof.  Lewis  R.  Packard,  Ph.  D., 

John  B.  Robertson,  M.  D., 

Hon.  Henry  B.  Harrison, 

William  L.  Kingsley,  Esq., 

Arthur  D.  Osborne,  Esq., 

Henry  D.  White,  Esq., 

Hon.  Luzon  B.  Morris, 

Henry  E.  Pardee,  Esq., 

Franklin  B.  Dexter,  Esq., 

Simeon  E.  Baldwin,  Esq., 


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Cincinnati. 
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Committee  on  Invitations,  (including  tlie  Secretaries  of  all 
the  Classes  graduated  during  the  preceding  twenty  years)  : 


President  Theodore  I 
Rev.  Jeremiah  Day,  D.D.,LL.D 
His  Excellency,  the  Governor. 
Hon.  Roger  Averill. 

Prof.  Noah  Porter,  D.  D. 

Prof.  Thomas  A.  Thacher. 
Edward  Olmstead,  Esq. 

Hon.  Henry  B.  Harrison. 

Hon.  Edward  I.  Sanford. 

Rev.  Henry  M.  Colton. 

Prof.  Timothy  Dwight. 

Prof.  Hubert  A.  Newton. 
Plenry  D.  White,  Esq. 

Charles  G. 


.  Woolsey,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

Prof.  Daniel  C.  Gilman. 

Rev.  Horace  H.  McFarland. 
Charles  H.  Leeds,  Esq. 

Rev.  Henry  N.  Cobb. 

Henry  E.  Pardee,  Esq. 

Prof.  Daniel  C.  Eaton. 

Col.  William  P.  Bacon. 

Arthur  W.  Wright,  Esq.,Ph.D. 
Henry  Champion,  Esq. 
Winthrop  D.  Sheldon,  Esq. 

J ohn  W.  Ailing,  Esq. 

Eleazar  K.  Foster,  Jr.,  Esq. 
)ckwood,  Esq. 


Committee  to  report  upon  the  best  method  of  honoring  the 
Memory  of  the  Fallen,  by  some  permanent  Memorial  : 

Prof.  Edward  E.  Salisbury. 

Hon.  Henry  C.  Deming.  Hon.  Andrew  D.  White. 

Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman.  Prof.  Daniel  C.  Gilman. 

The  General  Committee  immediately  proceeded  to  etfect  an 
organization,  Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman  being  appointed  Chair¬ 
man,  and  Simeon  E.  Baldwin,  Secretary.  An  auxiliary  asso¬ 
ciation  was  formed  in  New  York  city,  for  the  purpose  of  co¬ 
operation  in  the  matter,  of  which  William  M.  Evarts,  Esq., 
LL.  D.,  was  Chairman,  and  Eugene  Schuyler,  Alfred  J.  Tay¬ 
lor,  Sidmon  T.  Keese,  and  William  C.  Egleston,  Esqrs.,  were 
Secretaries,  and  preparations  were  made  for  celebrating  the 
day  by  bringing  together  as  large  a  number  of  the  Alumni 
as  might  be  possible,  before  whom  an  oration  should  be  pro¬ 
nounced  upon  some  subject  pertinent  to  the  occasion,  followed 
by  a  dinner,  to  which  all  of  their  number  who  had  served  in  the 
Army  or  Navy  during  the  War,  should  be  invited  as  guests, 


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there  to  sit  down  again  with  the  friends  of  College  days,  and 
celebrate  together  the  return  of  peace  and  the  brave  deeds  that 
secured  it. 

Invitations  were  widely  sent  out  by  the  Committee  charged 
with  that  duty,  for  which  the  recollection  of  one  of  their 
number  suggested  the  happy  motto, 

Cogite  Concilium,  et  Pacem  laudate  sedentes, 


and  when  the  day  arrived,  an  unusual  concourse  of  the  Alumni, 
many  of  them  with  bronzed  faces  and  in  army  blue,  was 
assembled  in  response  to  the  call. 


The  following  list  comprises  the  names  of  those  of  the  spe¬ 
cial  guests  of  the  day  who  reported  themselves  to  the  Invita¬ 
tion  Committee,  during  the  morning  : — 


Class  of  1818. 
Class  of  1821. 
Class  of  1829. 
Class  of  1832. 

Class  of  1835. 
Class  of  1836. 

Class  of  1837. 
Class  of  1839. 
Class  of  1 840. 
Class  of  1842. 
Class  of  1843. 
Class  of  1844. 

Class  of  1845. 
Class  of  1846. 
Class  of  1848. 
Class  of  1849. 

Class  of  1850. 


Class  of  1851. 


Chaplain  Hurlbut. — 1. 

Chaplain  Adams. — 1. 

General  Ullman. — 1. 

Rev.  E.  Colton,  Christian  Commission,  field  ser¬ 
vice. — 1. 

Surgeon  Cox,  Chaplain  Oviatt.— 2. 

Col.  Deming,  Brigade  Surgeon  Ellsworth,  Colonel 
Pierson. — 3. 

Surgeon  Pratt,  Chaplain  Stone. — 2. 

Lieut.  Peck,  Assistant  Surgeon  Wilcoxson.— 2. 

Surgeon  Head,  General  Parsons. — 2. 

Lieut.  Colonel  Larned,  Surgeon  Skinner. — 2. 

Colonel  Weeks. — 1. 

Rev.  M.  B.  Angier,  Christian  Commission,  field  ser¬ 
vice,  Surgeon  Griswold,  Assist.  Surg.  Rogers. — 3. 

General  Carrington,  Lieut.  Wales. — 2. 

General  Case. — 1. 

Chaplain  Reynolds. — 1. 

Assistant  Surgeon  Benedict,  Private  Douglas,  Pri¬ 
vate  Oakey. — 3. 

Private  Baldwin,  Capt.  Farnham,  Capt.  Horton,  Lt. 
Colonel  Mallery,  Surgeon  Mulford,  Rev.  B.  Par¬ 
sons,  (Christian  Commission  field  service.) — 6. 

Lieut.  Colonel  Crampton,  Major  Hastings,  General 
Noble,  Surgeon  Stiles.-— 4. 


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Class  of  1852. 


Class  of  1853. 


Class  of  1854. 
Class  of  1855. 


Class  of  1856. 
Class  of  1857. 
Class  of  1858. 


Class  of  1859. 


Class  of  1860. 


Class  of  1861. 

Class  of  1862. 


Class  of  1863. 


Class  of  1864. 


Lieut.  Bliss,  Assistant  Surgeon  Dubois,  Chaplain 
Dwight,  Assistant  Surgeon  Elderkin,  Surgeon 
Griswold,  Chaplain  Boot,  Chaplain  Salter,  Brig¬ 
ade  Surgeon  Storrs,  Private  Swift. — 9. 

Capt,  Bacon,  Capt.  Baer,  Capt.  Baldwin,  Capt.  Burr* 
General  Harland,  Chaplain  Holmes,  Acting  As- 
sistant  Surgeon  Hudson,  Private  Jones,  Colonel 
McVeagh. — 9. 

Chaplain  Eastman. — 1. 

Assistant  Surgeon  Andrews,  Capt.  Bumstead,  Col. 
Clark,  Private  Harmar,  Lieut.  Hyde,  Major  Piatt, 
Col.  Rockwell,  Chaplain  Taylor,  Chaplain  Tyler, 
Surgeon  Willets,  Capt.  Woodward. — 11. 

Private  Condit,  Assistant  Surgeon  Cowles. — 2. 

Private  Chamberlain,  Capt.  Jackson. — 2. 

Lieut.  Col.  Bacon,  Surgeon  Bennett,  Capt.  Hubbell, 
Sergeant  Ingerson,  Hospital  Steward  Magill,  Sur¬ 
geon  Mathewson,  Col.  Peirce,  Capt.  E.  A.  Pratt, 
Capt.  H.  A.  Pratt,  Sergeant  Riley,  Col.  Smith,  Pri¬ 
vate  Stevens,  Assistant  Surgeon  Tomlinson,  Lieut. 
Wells. — 14. 

Assistant  Surgeon  Brainerd,  Capt.  Dwight,  Chaplain 
Hall,  Major  Hatch,  Lieut.  Lounsbury,  Chaplain 
Lyman,  Chaplain  Rice,  Chaplain  Twichell,  Chap¬ 
lain  Upson,  Lieut.  Col.  Watkins. — 10. 

Medical  Cadet  Bradley,  Capt.  Finney,  Acting  Assist¬ 
ant  Paymaster  Foster,  U.  S.  N.,  Lieut.  Col.  Gaul, 
Assistant  Surgeon  Haight,  Chaplain  Hall,  Capt. 
Johnson,  Chaplain  Morris. — 8. 

Acting  Assistant  Paymaster  Higbee,  U.  S.  N.,  Pri¬ 
vate  Higgins,  Lieut.  Jones,  Lieut.  Kinney,  Major 
McKinnev,  Lieut.  Sheldon,  Lieut.  Col.  Stanton. — 7. 

Capt.  Bockee,  Private  Bosworth,  Col.  Brown,  Lieut. 
Ely,  Private  Greene,  Private  Hale,  Corporal  Hub¬ 
bard,  Lieut.  Johnston,  Private  Kitchel,  Capt.  Maltz- 
berger,  Private  McClintock,  Assistant  Surgeon 
Rowe,  Private  Sumner,  Assistant  Surgeon  Lewis, 
U.  S.  N. — 14. 

Acting  Assistant  Paymaster  Bishop,  U.  S.  N.,  Col. 
Blakeslee,  Chaplain  Doolittle,  Acting  Assistant 
Paymaster  Emerson,  U.  S.  N.,  Capt.  Fowler, 
Lieut.  Keyes,  Lieut.  Stimson,  Acting  Assistant 
Paymaster  Wildman,  U.  S.  N. 

Capt.  Arms,  Capt.  Atwater,  Capt.  Bacon,  Private 
Hill,  Private  Neide. — 13. 

Private  Scofield,  Sergeant-Major  Whitney. 

Medical  Cadet  Austin,  Acting  Assistant  Paymas¬ 
ter  Higgins,  U.  S.  N.,  Private  Parkman,  Lieut. 
Porter. — 6. 


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Class  of  1865.  Corporal  Ewell,  Private  Gaines,  Private  Gaylord, 

Private  Leonard,  Private  Merrill,  Private  Stock¬ 
ing,  Corporal  Treadwell. 

Adjutant  Pierson. — 8. 

Non-Graduates,  (1866.)  Capt.  Thompson. — 1. 

Theological  Department. — Chaplain  Jones,  (1863). — 1. 

Law  Department.-—  Col.  Wright,  (1848,)  Lieut.  Harrison,  (I860,) 
Sergeant  Cooke,  Lieut.  Sprague,  (1864,)  Private  Geis,  (1865.) 

—5. 

Medical  Department. — Surgeon  Harrison,  (1836.)  Surgeon  Jewett, 
(1840,)  Private  Beecher,  (1846,)  Surgeon  Bacon,  (1853,)  As¬ 
sistant  Surgeon  Bulkeley,  (1856,)  Surgeon  Dibble,  (1859,) 
Surgeon  Olmstead,  (1861,)  Surgeon  Terry,  (1862,)  Corporal 
Durrie,  (1865,)  Capt.  DuBois,  (1866.) — 10. 

Department  of  Philosophy  and  the  Arts. — Lieut.  Col  Weld, 
(1852,)  Assistant  Surgeon  Dubois,  (1859,)  Capt.  Coddington, 
(I860,)  Private  M.  Van  Harlingen,  (1863,)  Ensign  Treadweh, 
(1865,)  Private  McDonald,  (Undergraduate.) — 6.# 

The  customary  Alumni  Meeting  in  Graduates'  Hall,  was  held 
at  nine  o'clock,  A.  M.,  when  William  M.  Evarts,  Esq.,  was 
elected  President  of  the  Day,  and  Gen.  William  H.  Russell, 
Chief  Marshal.  Immediately  upon  its  adjournment,  the 
Alumni  marched  in  processsion,  led  by  Noll's  Orchestral  Band 
of  New  York,  which  furnished  the  music  for  the  day,  to  the 
Center  Church.  Here,  prayer  having  been  offered  by  the 
Reverend  John  R.  Adams,  D.  D.,  a  Chaplain  of  long  service 
in  the  field,  the  Reverend  Horace  Bushnell,  D.  D.,  of  Hart¬ 
ford,  pronounced  the  following  Oration,  before  a  crowded  audi¬ 
tory,  the  galleries  being  filled  with  ladies,  while  the  Alumni 
occupied  the  body  of  the  house. 

*  The  whole  number  of  the  guests  of  the  day,  whose  arrival  was  made  known 
to  the  Invitation  Committee,  and  whose  names  are  given  above,  is  one  hundred 
and  seventy-five. 


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ORATION. 


OUR  OBLIGATIONS  TO  THE  HEAD. 

Brethren  of  the  Alumni  : — 

To  pay  fit  honors  to  our  dead  is  one  of  the  fraternal  and 
customary  offices  of  these  anniversaries  ;  never  so  nearly  an 
office  of  high  public  duty  as  now,  when  we  find  the  roll  of  our 
membership  starred  with  so  many  names  made  sacred  hy  the 
giving  up  of  life  for  the  Republic.  We  knew  them  here  in 
terms  of  cherished  intimacy  ;  some  of  them  so  lately  that  we 
scarcely  seem  to  have  been  parted  from  them  ;  others  of  them 
we  have  met  here  many  times,  returning  to  renew,  with  us,  their 
tender  and  pleasant  recollections  of  the  past  ;  but  we  meet 
them  here  no  more — they  are  gone  to  make  up  the  hecatomb 
offered  for  their  and  our  great  natioiTs  life.  Hence  it  has 
been  specially  desired  on  this  occasion,  that  we  honor  their 
heroic  sacrifice  hy  some  fit  remembrance.  Had  the  call  of 
your  committee  been  different,  I  should  certainly  not  have 
responded. 

And  yet,  over-willing  as  I  have  been  to  assume  an  office  so 
entirely  grateful,  it  is  a  matter  none  the  less  difficult  to  settle 
on  the  best  and  most  proper  way  of  doing  the  honors  intended. 
I  think  you  will  agree  with  me,  that  it  cannot  he  satisfactorily 
done  by  preparing  a  string  of  obituary  notices  of  our  dead  ; 
that  would  he  more  appropriate  to  some  published  document, 
and  no  wise  appropriate  to  a  public  discourse.  Besides,  to 
withdraw  them  from  the  vaster  roll  of  the  dead,  in  which  it 

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was  their  honor  to  die,  and  set  them  in  a  circle  of  mere 
literary  clanship,  hounding  our  testimony  of  homage  hy  the 
accident  of  their  matriculation  here  with  us,  would  he  rather 
to  claim  our  honors  in  them,  than  to  pay  them  honors  due  to 
themselves.  We  should  seem  not  even  to  appreciate  the  grand 
public  motive  to  which  they  gave  up  their  life.  They  honored 
us  in  dying  for  their  country,  and  we  fitly  honor  them,  when 
we  class  them  with  the  glorious  brotherhood  in  which  they  fell. 
Beserving  it  therefore  as  my  privilege,  to  make  such  reference 
specially  to  them  as  befits  the  occasion,  I  propose  a  more 
general  subject,  in  which  due  honors  may  he  paid  to  all,  viz  : 
The  obligations  ice  owe  to  the  dead — all  the  dead  who  have 
fallen  in  this  gigantic  and  fearfully  bloody  war. 

There  are  various  ways  in  which  a  people,  delivered  hy 
great  struggles  of  war,  may  endeavor  to  pay  their  testimony 
of  honor  to  the  men  who  have  fallen.  They  may  do  it  hy 
chanting  requiems  for  the  repose  of  their  souls  ;  which,  though 
it  may  not  have  any  great  effect  in  that  precise  way,  is  at  least 
an  act  of  implied  homage  and  gratitude.  The  same  thing  is 
attempted  more  frequently  hy  covering  the  dead  benefactors 
and  heroes  with  tributes  of  eulogy  ;  only  here  it  is  a  dis¬ 
appointment,  that  none  hut  a  few  leaders  are  commemorated, 
while  the  undistinguished  multitude,  who  jeoparded  their  lives 
most  freely,  are  passed  hy  and  forgot.  The  best  thing  there¬ 
fore  to  he  done,  worthiest  both  of  the  dead  and  the  living,  is, 
it  seems  to  me,  that  which  I  now  propose — to  recount  our 
obligations  to  the  dead  in  general ;  what  they  have  done  for 
for  us,  what  they  have  earned  at  our  hands,  and  what  they 
have  put  it  on  us  to  do  for  the  dear  common  country  to  which 
they  sold  their  life. 

First  of  all,  then,  we  are  to  see  that  we  give  them  their  due 
share  of  the  victory  and  the  honors  of  victory.  For  it  is  one  of 


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our  natural  infirmities,  against  which  we  need  to  he  carefully 
and  even  jealously  guarded,  that  we  fall  so  easily  into  the 
impression,  which  puts  them  in  the  class  of  defeat  and  failure. 
Are  they  not  dead  ?  And  who  shall  count  the  dead  as  being  in 
the  roll  of  victory  ?  But  the  living  return  to  greet  us  and  he 
with  us,  and  we  listen  eagerly  to  the  story  of  the  scenes  in 
which  they  hore  their  part.  We  enjoy  their  exultations  and 
exult  with  them.  Their  great  leaders  also  return,  to  he 
crowded  by  our  ovations,  and  deafened  by  our  applauses. 
These,  these,  we  too  readily  say,  are  the  victors,  considering  no 
more  the  dead  hut  with  a  certain  feeling  close  akin  to  pity.  If, 
sometime,  the  story  of  their  fall  is  told  us,  the  spot  described, 
far  in  front  or  on  the  rampart's  edge,  where  they  left  their 
bodies,  and  the  fatal  gashes  at  which  their  soul  went  out,  we 
listen  with  sympathy  and  sad  respect,  hut  we  do  not  find  how 
to  count  them  in  the  lists  of  victory,  and  scarcely  to  include 
them  in  the  general  victory  of  the  cause.  All  our  associations 
run  this  way,  and  before  we  know  it  we  have  them  down,  most 
likely,,  on  the  losing  side  of  the  struggle.  They  belong,  we 
fancy,  to  the  waste  of  victory — sad  waste  indeed,  hut  not  in 
any  sense  a  part  of  victory  itself.  No,  no,  ye  living  ;  it  is  the 
ammunition  spent  that  gains  the  battle,  not  the  ammunition 
brought  off  from  the  field.  These  dead  are  the  spent  ammu¬ 
nition  of  the  war,  and  theirs  above  all  is  the  victory.  Upon 
what  indeed  turned  the  question  of  the  war  itself,  but  on  the 
dead  that  could  he  furnished ;  or,  what  is  no  wise  different, 
the  life  that  could  he  contributed  for  that  kind  of  expenditure. 
These  grim  heroes  therefore,  dead  and  dumb,  that  have  strewed 
so  many  fields  with  their  bodies — these  are  the  price  and  pur¬ 
chase  money  of  our  triumph.  A  great  many  of  us  were  ready 
to  live,  but  these  offered  themselves,  in  a  sense,  to  die,  and  by 
their  cost  the  victory  is  won. 


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Nay,  it  is  not  quite  enough,  if  we  will  know  exactly  who  is 
entitled  to  a  part  in  these  honors,  that  we  only  remember 
these  dead  of  the  war.  Buried  generations  hack  of  them 
were  also  present  in  it  almost  as  truly  as  they.  Thus,  if  we 
take  the  two  most  honored  leaders,  Grant  and  Sherman,  who, 
besides  the  general  victory  they  have  gained  for  the  cause, 
have  won  their  sublime  distinction  as  the  greatest  living  com¬ 
manders  of  the  world,  it  will  be  impossible  to  think  of  them 
as  having  made  or  begotten  their  own  lofty  endowments.  All 
great  heroic  men  have  seeds  and  roots,  far  back  it  may  be,  out 
of  which  they  spring,  and  apart  from  which  they  could  not 
spring  at  all ;  a  sublime  fatherhood  and  motherhood,  in  whose 
blood  and  life,  however  undistinguished,  victory  was  long  ago 
distilling,  for  the  great  day  to  come  of  their  people  and  nation. 
They  knew  it  not ;  they  sleep  in  graves,  it  may  be,  now  for¬ 
got  ;  but  their  huge-grown,  manful  temperament,  the  fights 
they  waged  and  won  in  life's  private  battle,  the  lofty  prayer- 
impulse  which  made  inspirations  their  element,  their  brave 
self-retaining  patience,  and  the  orderly  vigor  of  their  house¬ 
hold  command  were  breeding  in  and  in,  to  be  issued  finally  in 
a  hero  sonship,  and  by  that  fight  themselves  out  into  the 
grandest  victory  for  right  and  law  the  future  ages  shall  know. 
So  that  if  we  ask  who  are  the  dead  that  are  to  be  counted  in 
our  victory,  we  must  pierce  the  sod  of  Wethersfield  and  Strat¬ 
ford,  of  Woodbury  and  Norwalk,  and  find  where  the  Honor¬ 
able  Sherman,  the  Deacon  Sherman,  the  Judge  Sherman,  and 
all  the  line  of  the  Shermans  and  their  victor  wives  and 
mothers  lie  ;  and  then,  if  we  can  guess  what  they  were  and 
how  they  lived,  we  shall  know  who  fought  the  great  campaigns 
on  Atlanta,  Savannah  and  Baleigh.  So  again,  if  we  begin  at 
the  good  Deacon  Grant  in  Mr.  WarhanTs  church  at  Windsor, 
descending;  to  the  historic  Matthew  Grant  of  Tolland — fellow 

O 


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scout  with  Putnam  and  captain  of  a  French  war  company, — 
then  to  the  now  living  Joel  Root  Grant,  who  removed  to 
Pennsylvania,  afterwards  also  to  Ohio,  afterwards  finally,  I 
believe,  to  Illinois — whose  wanderings  appear  to  he  commemo¬ 
rated  in  the  classic  name  of  Ulysses — we  shall  see  by  what 
tough  flanking  processes  of  life  and  family  the  great  Lieutenant- 
General  was  preparing,  who  should  turn  the  front  of  Vicks¬ 
burg,  and  march  by  Lee  and  Richmond,  and  cut  off,  by  the 
rear,  even  the  Great  Rebellion  itself.  0,  if  we  could  see  it, 
how  long  and  grandly  were  the  victories  of  these  great  souls 
preparing  !  The  chief  thing  was  the  making  of  the  souls 
themselves,  and  when  that  was  done  the  successes  came  of 
course. 

And  from  these  two  examples  you  may  see  by  what  lines  of 
private  worth,  and  public  virtue,  and  more  than  noble  blood, 
the  stock  of  our  great  patriotic  armies  has  been  furnished. 
For  how  grand  a  pitch  of  devotion  has  been  often  shown  by 
the  private  soldiers  of  these  armies.  There  was  never  em¬ 
bodied,  in  all  the  armies  of  the  world,  a  public  inspiration  so 
remarkable.  Really  the  grandest  heroes  are  these,  who  have 
neither  had,  nor  wanted,  any  motive  but  the  salvation  of  the 
Republic.  And  do  you  think  there  was  nothing  back  of  them 
to  make  them  what  they  were  ?  What  but  an  immense  out¬ 
growth  were  they  of  whole  ages  of  worth,  intelligence,  and 
public  devotion  ?  And  for  what  more  honorable  distinction 
should  we  here  and  always  pay  our  thanks  to  God  P  0,  it  is 
these  generations  of  buried  worth  that  have  been  fighting  in 
our  battles,  and  if  we  will  pay  our  obligations  to  the  dead,  it 
is  this  nameless  fatherhood  and  motherhood,  before  whose 
memory  we  shall  bare  our  head,  in  the  deepest  homage  and 
tenderest  reverence. 

Still  it  is  not  my  intention  to  occupy  you  with  the  part 


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fulfilled  by  these  remoter  generations  of  the  past,  but  with  the 
more  general  remembrance  of  such  as  have  fallen  in  the  war 
itself.  I  only  refer  you  to  these,  to  show  you  how  very  trivial 
and  weak  a  thing  it  is,  if  we  speak  of  our  victories,  to  imagine 
that  only  such  as  come  out  of  the  war  alive  are  entitled  to 
credit  and  reverence  on  account  of  them. 

But  I  pass  to  a  point  where  the  dead  obtain  a  right  of 
honor  that  is  more  distinctive,  and  belongs  not  to  the  living  at 
all ;  or  if,  in  certain  things,  partly  to  the  living,  yet  only  to 
them  in  some  less  sacred  and  prominent  way.  I  speak  here  of 
the  fact  that,  according  to  the  true  economy  of  the  world,  so 
many  of  its  grandest  and  most  noble  benefits  have  and  are  to 
have  a  tragic  origin,  and  to  come  as  outgrowths  only  of  blood. 
Whether  it  be  that  sin  is  in  the  world,  and  the  whole  creation 
groaneth  in  the  necessary  throes  of  its  demonized  life,  we  need 
not  stay  to  inquire  ;  for  sin  would  be  in  the  world  and  the 
demonizing  spell  would  be  upon  it.  Such  was,  and  was  to  be, 
and  is,  the  economy  of  it.  Common  life,  the  world's  great 
life,  is  in  the  largo  way  tragic.  As  the  mild  benignity  and 
peaceful  reign  of  Christ  begins  at  the  principle,  “  without 
shedding  of  blood,  there  is  no  remission,"  so,  without  shed¬ 
ding  of  blood,  there  is  almost  nothing  great  in  the  world,  or  to 
be  expected  for  it.  For  the  life  is  in  the  blood — all  life — and 
it  is  ]5ut  flowing  within,  partly  for  the  seiving  of  a  nobler  use 
in  flowing  out,  on  fit  occasion,  to  quicken  and  consecrate  what¬ 
ever  it  touches.  God  could  not  plan  a  Peace-Society  world, 
to  live  in  the  sweet  amenities,  and  grow  great  and  happy  by 
simply  thriving  and  feeding.  There  must  be  bleeding  also. 
Sentiments  must  be  born  that  are  children  of  thunder  ;  there 
must  be  heroes  and  heroic  nationalities,  and  martyr  testimo¬ 
nies,  else  there  will  be  only  mediocrities,  insipidities,  common¬ 
place  men,  and  common-place  writings,  a  sordid  and  mean 


15  * 

peace,  liberties  without  a  pulse,  and  epics  that  are  only 
eclogues. 

And  here  it  is  that  the  dead  of  our  war  have  done  for  us  a 
work  so  precious,  which  is  all  their  own — they  have  bled  for 
us ;  and  by  this  simple  sacrifice  of  blood  they  have  opened  for 
us  a  new  great  chapter  of  life.  We  were  living  before  in  trade 
and  commerce,  bragging  of  our  new  cities  and  our  census 
reports,  and  our  liberties  that  were  also  consciously  mocked 
by  our  hypocrisies,  having  only  the  possibilities  of  great  inspi- 
rations  and  not  the  fact,  materialized  more  and  more  evidently 
in  our  habits  and  sentiments,  strong  principally  in  our  dis¬ 
cords  and  the  impetuosity  of  our  projects  for  money.  But 
the  blood  of  our  dead  has  touched  our  souls  with  thoughts 
more  serious  and  deeper,  and  begotten,  as  I  trust,  somewhat 
of  that  high-bred  inspiration  which  is  itself  the  possibility  of 
genius,  and  of  a  true  public  greatness.  Saying  nothing  then 
for  the  present,  of  our  victors  and  victories,  let  us  see  what 
we  have  gotten  by  the  blood  of  our  slain. 

And,  first  of  all,  in  this  blood  our  unity  is  cemented  and 
forever  sanctified.  Something  was  gained  for  us  here,  at  the 
beginning,  by  our  sacrifices  in  the  fields  of  the  Bevolution — 
something,  but  not  all.  Had  it  not  been  for  this  common 
bleeding  of  the  States  in  their  common  cause,  it  is  doubtful 
whether  our  Constitution  could  ever  have  been  carried.  The 
discords  of  the  Convention  were  imminent,  as  we  know,  and 
were  only  surmounted  by  compromises  that  left  them  still 
existing.  They  were  simply  kennelled  under  the  Constitution 
and  not  reconciled  ;  as  began  to  be  evident  shortly  in  the  doc¬ 
trines  of  State  sovereignty,  and  State  nullification,  here  and 
there  asserted.  We  had  not  bled  enough,  as  yet,  to  merge  our 
colonial  distinctions  and  make  us  a  proper  nation.  Our  bat¬ 
tles  had  not  been  upon  a  scale  to  thoroughly  mass  our  feeling, 


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or  gulf  us  in  a  common  cause  and  life.  Against  the  State- 
rights  doctrines,  the  logic  of  our  Constitution  was  decisive, 
and  they  were  refuted  a  thousand  times  over.  But  such 
things  do  not  go  by  argument — no  argument  transmutes  a  dis¬ 
cord,  or  composes  a  unity  where  there  was  none.  The  matter 
wanted  here  was  blood,  not  logic,  and  this  we  now  have  on  a 
scale  large  enough  to  meet  our  necessity.  True  it  is  blood  on 
one  side,  and  blood  on  the  other — all  the  better  for  that ;  for  bad 
bleeding  kills,  and  righteous  bleeding  sanctifies  and  quickens. 
The  State-rights  doctrine  is  now  fairly  bled  away,  and  the 
unity  died  for,  in  a  way  of  such  prodigious  devotion,  is  forever 
sealed  and  glorified. 

Nor  let  any  one  be  concerned  for  the  sectional  relations  of 
defeat  and  victory.  For  there  has  all  the  while  been  a  grand, 
suppressed  sentiment  of  country  in  the  general  field  of  the 
rebellion,  which  is  bursting  up  already  into  sovereignty  out  of 
the  soil  itself.  There  is  even  a  chance  that  this  sentiment 
may  blaze  into  a  passion  hot  enough  to  utterly  burn  up  what¬ 
ever  fire  itself  can  master.  At  all  events  it  will  put  under 
the  ban,  from  this  time  forth,  all  such  instigators  of  treason 
as  could  turn  their  peaceful  States  into  hells  of  desolation,  and 
force  even  patriotic  citizens  to  fight  against  the  homage  they 
bore  their  country.  However  this  may  be,  the  seeds  of  a  true 
public  life  are  in  the  soil,  waiting  to  grow  apace.  It  will  be  as 
when  the  flood  of  Noah  receded.  For  the  righteous  man  per¬ 
chance  began  to  bethink  himself  shortly,  and  to  be  troubled, 
that  he  took  no  seeds  into  the  ark ;  but  no  sooner  were  the 
waters  down,  than  the  oaks,  and  palms,  and  all  great  trees, 
sprung  into  life,  under  the  dead  old  trunks  of  the  forest,  and 
the  green  world  reappeared  even  greener  than  before  ;  only  the 
sections  had  all  received  new  seeds,  by  a  floating  exchange, 
and  put  them  forthwith  into  growth  together  with  their  own. 


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So  the  unity  now  to  be  developed,  after  this  war-deluge  is 
over,  is  like  even  to  be  more  cordial  than  it  ever  could  have 
been.  It  will  be  no  more  thought  of  as  a  mere  human  com¬ 
pact,  or  composition,  always  to  be  debated  by  the  letter,  but  it 
will  be  that  bond  of  common  life  which  God  has  touched  with 
blood  ;  a  sacredly  heroic,  Providentially  tragic,  unity,  where 
God’s  cherubim  stand  guard  over  grudges,  and  hates,  and 
remembered  jealousies,  and  the  sense  of  nationality  becomes 
even  a  kind  of  religion.  How  many  would  have  said,  that 
the  Saxon  Heptarchy,  tormented  by  so  many  intrigues  and 
feuds  of  war,  could  never  be  a  nation  ?  But  their  formal 
combination  under  Egbert,  followed  by  their  wars  against  the 
Hanes  under  Alfred,  set  them  in  a  solid,  sanctified  unity,  and 
made  them,  as  a  people,  one  true  England,  instead  of  the 

seven  Englands  that  were — which  seven  wTere  never  again  to 

* 

be  more  than  historically  remembered.  And  so,  bleeding  on 
together  from  that  time  to  this,  in  all  sorts  of  wars  ;  wars 
civil  and  wars  abroad  ;  drenching  the  land  and  coloring  the 
sea  with  their  blood  ;  gaining  all  sorts  of  victories  and  suffer¬ 
ing  all  kinds  of  defeats  ;  their  parties  and  intestine  strifes  are 
no  more  able  now  to  so  much  as  raise  a  thought  that  is  not 
in  allegiance  to  their  country.  In  like  manner — let  no  one 
doubt  of  it — these  United  States,  having  dissolved  the  intrac¬ 
table  matter  of  so  many  infallible  theories  and  bones  of  con¬ 
tention,  in  the  dreadful  menstruum  of  their  blood,  are  to  settle 
into  fixed  unity,  and  finally  into  a  nearly  homogeneous  life. 

Passing  to  another  point  of  view,  we  owe  it  to  our  dead  in 
this  terrible  war,  that  they  have  given  us  the  possibility  of  a 
great  consciousness  ancl  great  public  sentiments.  There  must 
needs  be  something  lofty  in  a  people’s  action,  and  above  all 
something  heroic  in  their  sacrifices  for  a  cause,  to  sustain  a 
'  great  sentiment  in  them.  They  will  try,  in  the  smooth  days 


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of  peace,  and  golden  thriftiness,  and  wide-spreading  growth, 
to  have  it,,  and  perhaps  will  think  they  really  have  it,  hut  they 
will  only  have  semblances  and  counterfeits — patriotic  profes¬ 
sions  that  are  showy  and  thin,  swells  and  protestations  that 
are  only  oratorical  and  have  no  true  fire.  All  the  worse  if  they 
have  interests  and  institutions  that  are  all  the  while  mock¬ 
ing  their  principles  ;  breeding  factions  that  can  he  quieted  only 
by  connivances,  and  compromises,  and  political  bargains,  that 
sell  out  their  muniments  of  right  and  nationality.  Then  you 
shall  see  all  high  devotion  going  down  as  by  a  law,  till  nothing 
is  left  hut  the  dastard  picture  of  a  spent  magistracy,  that, 
when  everything  is  falling  into  wreck,  can  only  whimper  that 
it  sees  not  anything  it  can  do  !  Great  sentiments  go  when 
they  are  not  dismissed,  and  will  not  come  when  they  are  sent 

for.  We  cannot  keep  them  by  much  talk,  nor  have  them 
* 

because  we  have  heard  of  them  and  seen  them  in  a  classic 
halo.  A  lofty  public  consciousness  arises,  only  when  things 
are  loftily  and  nobly  done.  It  is  only  when  we  are  rallied  by 
a  cause,  in  that  cause  receive  a  great  inspiration,  in  that  inspi¬ 
ration  give  our  bodies  to  the  death,  and  then,  out  of  many 
■ 

such  heroes  dead,  comes  the  possibility  of  great  thoughts,  fired 
by  sacrifice,  and  a  true  public  magnanimity. 

In  this  view,  we  are  not  the  same  people  that  we  were,  and 
never  can  be  again.  Our  young  scliolars,  that  before  could 
only  find  the  forms  of  great  feeling  in  their  classic  studies, 
now  catch  the  fire  of  it  unsought.  Emulous,  before,  of  saying 
fine  things  for  their  country,  they  now  choke  for  the  impossi¬ 
bility  of  saying  what  they  truly  feel.  The  pitch  of  their  life  is 
raised.  The  tragic  blood  of  the  war  is%  kind  of  new  capacity 
for  them.  They  perceive  what  it  is  to  have  a  country  and  a 
public  devotion.  Great  aims  are  close  at  hand,  and  in  such 
aims  a  finer  type  of  manners.  And  what  shall  follow,  hut  v 


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that,  in  their  more  invigorated,  nobler  life,  they  are  seen  here¬ 
after  to  be  manlier  in  thought  and  scholarship,  and  closer  to 
genius  in  action. 

I  must  also  speak  of  the  new  great  history  sanctified  by 
this  war,  and  the  blood  of  its  fearfully  bloody  sacrifices.  So 
much  worth  and  character  were  never  sacrificed  in  a  human 
war  before.  And  by  this  mournful  offering,  we  have  bought  a 
really  stupendous  chapter  of  history.  We  had  a  little 
very  beautiful  history  before,  which  we  were  beginning  to 
cherish  and  fondly  cultivate.  But  we  had  not  enough  of  it  to 
beget  a  full  historic  consciousness.  As  was  just  now  inti¬ 
mated  in  a  different  way,  no  people  ever  become  vigorously 
conscious,  till  they  mightily  do,  and  heroically  suffer.  The 
historic  sense  is  close  akin  to  tragedy.  We  say  it  accusingly 
often, — and  foolishly — that  history  cannot  live  on  peace,  but 
must  feed  itself  on  blood.  The  reason  is  that,  without  the 
blood,  there  is  really  nothing  great  enough  in  motive  and 
action,  taking  the  world  as  it  is,  to  create  a  great  people  or 
story.  If  a  gospel  can  be  executed  only  in  blood,  if  there  is 
no  power  of  salvation  strong  enough  to  carry  the  world's  feel¬ 
ing  which  is  not  gained  by  dying  for  it,  how  shall  a  selfish 
race  get  far  enough  above  itself,  to  be  kindled  by  the  story  of 
its  action,  in  the  dull  routine  of  its  common  arts  of  peace  ? 
Doubtless  it  should  be  otherwise,  even  as  goodness  should  be 
universal ;  but  so  it  never  has  been,  and  upon  the  present 
footing  of  evil  never  can  be.  The  great  cause  must  be  great 
as  in  the  clashing  of  evil,  and  heroic  inspirations,  and  the  bleed¬ 
ing  of  heroic  worth,  must  be  the  zest  of  the  story.  Nations  can 
sufficiently  live,  only  as  they  find  how  to  energetically  die.  In 
this  view,  some  of  us  have  felt,  for  a  long  time,  the  want  of  a 
more  historic  life,  to  make  us  a  truly  great  people.  This  want 
is  now  supplied  ;  for  now,  at  last,  we  may  be  said  to  have 


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gotten  a  history.  The  story  of  this  four  years  war  is  the 
grandest  chapter,  I  think,  of  heroic  fact,  and  tragic  devotion, 
and  spontaneous  public  sacrifice,  that  has  ever  been  made  in 
our  world.  The  great  epic  story  of  Troy  is  but  a  song  in 
comparison.  There  was  never  a  better,  and  never  so  great  a 
cause — order  against  faction,  law  against  conspiracy,  liberty 
and  right  against  the  madness  and  defiant  wrong  of  slavery, 
the  unity  and  salvation  of  the  greatest  future  nationality  and 
freest  government  of  the  world,  a  perpetual  state  of  war  to  be 
averted,  and  the  preservation  for  mankind  of  an  example  of 
popular  government  and  free  society  that  is  a  token  of 
promise  for  true  manhood,  and  an  omen  of  death  to  old  abuse 
and  prescriptive  wrong  the  world  over  ;  this  has  been  our 
cause,  and  it  is  something  to  say  that  we  have  borne  ourselves 
worthily  in  it.  Our  noblest  and  best  sons  have  given  their 
life  to  it.  We  have  dotted  whole  regions  with  battle  fields. 
We  have  stained  how  many  rivers,  and  bays,  and  how  many 
hundred  leagues  of  railroad,  with  .our  blood.  We  have  suf¬ 
fered  appalling  defeats  ;  twice  at  Bull  Run,  at  Wilson’s 
Creek,  in  the  great  campaign  of  the  Peninsula,  at  Cedar 
Mountain,  at  Fredericksburgh,  at  Chancellors ville,  at  Chicka- 
mauga,  and  upon  the  Red  River,  leaving  our  acres  of  dead  on 
all  these  fields  and  many  others  less  conspicuous  ;  yet,  abat¬ 
ing  no  jot  of  courage  and  returning  with  resolve  unbroken, 
we  have  converted  these  defeats  into  only  more  impressive 
victories.  In  this  manner  too,  with  a  better  fortune  nobly 
earned,  we  have  hallowed  as  names  of  glory  and  high  victory, 
Pea  Ridge,  Donnelson,  Shiloh,  Hilton  Head,  Hew  Orleans, 
Vicksburgh,  Port  Hudson,  Stone  River,  Lookout  Mountain, 
Resaca,  Atlanta,  Fort  Fisher,  Gettysburgh,  Nashville,  Wil¬ 
mington,  Petersburgh  and  Richmond,  B^ntonville,  Mobile  Bay, 
and  last  of  all  the  forts  of  Mobile  citv.  All  these  and  a  hun- 

4/ 


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dred  others  are  now  become,  and  in  all  future  time  are  to  be, 
names  grandly  historic.  And  to  have  them  is  to  be  bow  great 
a  gift  for  the  ages  to  come  !  By  bow  many  of  the  future 
children  of  the  Republic  will  these  spots  be  visited,  and  bow 
many  will  return  from  their  pilgrimages  hither,  blest  in  re¬ 
membrances  of  the  dead,  to  whom  they  owe  their  country. 

Among  the  fallen  too  we  have  names  that  will  glow  with 
unfading  lustre  on  whatever  page  they  are  written — our  own 
brave  Lyon,  baptizing  the  cause  in  the  blood  of  his  early 
death  ;  our  Sedgwick,  never  found  wanting  at  any  point  of 
command — equal  in  fact  to  the  very  highest  command,  and 
only  too  modest  to  receive  it  when  offered  ;  the  grandly  gifted 
young  McPherson,  who  had  already  fought  himself  into  the 
first  rank  of  leadership,  and  was  generally  counted  the  peerless 
hope  and  prodigy  of  the  armies  ;  Reynolds  also,  and  Kearney, 
and  Reno,  and  Birney,  and  how  many  brilliant  stars,  or  even 
constellations  of  stars,  in  the  lower  degrees  of  command-such 
as  Rice,  and  Lowell,  and  Vincent,  and  Shaw,  and  Stedman, 
and  a  hundred  others  in  like  honor,  for  the  heroic  merit  of 
their  leadership  and  death.  And  yet,  when  I  drop  all  particu¬ 
lar  names,  dear  as  they  may  be,  counting  them  only  the  smoke 
and  not  the  fire,  lotting  the  unknown  trains  of  dead  heroes 
pack,  and  mass,  and  ascend,  to  shine,  as  by  host,  in  the  glori¬ 
ous  Milky  Way  of  their  multitude — -men  that  left  their  busi¬ 
ness  and  all  the  dearest  ties  of  home  and  family  to  fight  their 
country’s  righteous  war,  and  fought  on  till  they  fell — then  for 
the  first  time  do  I  seem  to  feel  the  tide-swing  of  a  great  his¬ 
toric  consciousness.  Glod  forbid  that  any  prudishness  of  mod¬ 
esty  should  here  detain  us.  Let  us  fear  no  more  to  say  that 
we  have  won  a  history  and  the  right  to  be  a  consciously 
historic  people.  Henceforth  our  new  world  even  heads  the 
old,  having  in  this  single  chapter  risen  clean  above  it.  The 


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wars  of  Csesar,  and  Frederic,  and  Napoleon,  were  grand 
enough  in  their  leadership,  hut  there  is  no  grand  j)eople,  or 
popular  greatness  in  them,  consequently  no  true  dignity.  In 
this  war  of  ours  it  is  the  people,  moving  by  their  own  decisive 
motion,  in  the  sense  of  their  own  great  cause.  For  this  cause 
we  have  volunteered  by  the  million,  and  in  three  thousand  mil¬ 
lions  of  money,  and  by  the  resolute  bleeding  of  our  men  and 

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the  equally  resolute  bleeding  of  our  self-taxation,  we  have 
bought  and  sanctified  consentingly  all  these  fields,  all  that  is 
grand  in  this  thoroughly  principled  history. 

Again,  it  is  not  a  new  age  of  history  only  that  we  owe  to 
the  bloody  sacrifices  of  this  war,  but  in  much  the  same  man¬ 
ner  the  confidence  of  a  new  literary  age  ;  a  benefit  that  we  are 
sjrecially  called,  in  such  a  place  as  this,  and  on  such  an  occa¬ 
sion,  to  remember  and  fitly  acknowledge.  Great  public  throes 
are,  mentally  speaking,  changes  of  base  for  some  new  thought- 
campaign  in  a  people.  Hence  the  brilliant  new  literature  of 
the  age  of  Queen  Elizabeth ;  then  of  another  golden  era  under 
Anne  ;  and  then  still  again,  as  in  the  arrival  of  another  birth¬ 
time,  after  the  Napoleonic  wars  of  George  the  Fourth.  The 
same  thing  has  been  noted,  I  believe,  in  respect  to  the  wars  of 

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Greece  and  Germany.  Only  it  is  in  such  wars  as  raise  the  public 
sense  and  majesty  of  a  people  that  the  result  is  seen  to  follow. 
For  it  is  the  high-souled  feeling  raised  that  quickens  high- 
souled  thought,  and  puts  the  life  of  genius  in  the  glow  of  new 
born  liberty.  This  we  are  now  to  expect,  for  the  special 
reason  also  that  we  have  here,  for  the  first  time,  conquered 
a  position.  Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  no  great  writer  becomes 
himself,  in  his  full  power,  till  he  has  gotten  the  sense  of 
position.  Much  more  true  is  this  of  a  people.  And  here  has 
been  our  weakness  until  now.  We  have  held  the  place  of 
cliency,  we  have  taken  our  models  and  laws  of  criticism,  and, 


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to  a  great  extent,  our  opinions,  from  the  English  motherhood 
of  our  language  and  mind.  Under  that  kind  of  pupilage  we 
live  no  longer ;  we  are  thoroughly  weaned  from  it,  and  become 
a  people  in  no  secondary  right.  Henceforth  we  are  not  going 
to  write  English,  hut  American.  As  we  have  gotten  our 
position,  we  are  now  to  have  our  own  civilization,  think  our 
own  thoughts,  rhyme  in  our  own  measures,  kindle  our  own 
tires,  and  make  our  own  canons  of  criticism,  even  as  we  settle 
the  proprieties  of  punishment  for  our  own  traitors.  We  are 
not  henceforth  to  live  as  by  cotton,  and  corn,  and  trade, 
keeping  the  downward  slope  of  thrifty  mediocrity.  Our  young 
men  are  not  going  out  of  college,  staled,  in  the  name  of  disci¬ 
pline,  by  their  carefully  conned  lessons,  to  he  launched  on  the 
voyage  of  life  as  ships  without  wind,  hut  they  are  to  have 
great  sentiments,  and  mighty  impulsions,  and  souls  alive  all 
through,  in  fires  of  high  devotion. 

We  have  gotten  also  now  the  historic  matter  of  a  true  ora¬ 
torio  inspiration,  and  the  great  orators  are  coming  after.  In 
the  place  of  politicians  we  are  going  to  have,  at  least,  some 
statesmen  ;  for  we  have  gotten  the  pitch  of  a  grand,  new, 
Abrahamic  statesmanship — unsophisticated,  honest  and  real  ; 
no  cringing  sycophancy,  or  cunning  art  of  demagogy.  We 
have  also  facts,  adventures,  characters  enough  now  in  store, 
to  feed  five  hundred  years  of  fiction.  We  have  also  plots, 
and  lies,  and  honorable  perjuries,  false  heroics,  barbaric  mur¬ 
ders  and  assassinations,  conspiracies  of  fire  and  poison, — 
enough  of  them,  and  wicked  enough,  to  furnish  the  Satanic 
side  of  tragedy  for  long  ages  to  come  ;  coupled  also  with  such 
grandeurs  of  public  valor  and  principle,  such  beauty  of  heroic 
sacrifice,  in  womanhood  and  boyhood,  as  tragedy  has  scarcely 
yet  been  able  to  find.  As  to  poetry,  our  battle  fields  are 
henceforth  names  poetic,  and  our  very  soil  is  touched  with  a 

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mighty  poetic  life.  In  the  rustle  of  our  winds,  what  shall  the 
waking  soul  of  our  poets  think  of,  but  of  brave  souls  riding 
by?  In  our  thunders  they  may  hear  the  shocks  of  charges, 
and  the  red  of  the  sunset  shall  take  a  tinge  in  their  feeling 
from  the  summits  where  our  heroes  fell.  A  new  sense  comes 
upon  everything,  and  the  higher  soul  of  mind,  quickened  by 
new  possibilities,  finds  inspirations  where  before  it  found  only 
rocks,  and  ploughlands,  and  much  timber  for  the  saw.  Are 
there  no  great  singers  to  rise  in  this  new  time  P  Are  there  no 
unwonted  fires  to  be  kindled  in  imaginations  fanned  by  these 
new  glows  of  devotion?  We  seem,  as  it  were  in  a  day,  to  be 
set  in  loftier  ranges  of  thought,  by  this  huge  flood-tide  that 
has  lifted  our  nationality,  gifted  with  new  sentiments  and  finer 
possibilities,  commissioned  to  create,  and  write,  and  sing,  and, 
in  the  sense  of  a  more  poetic  feeling  at  least,  to  be  all  poets. 

Considering  now  these  higher  possibilities  of  literature,  who 
shall  say  how  much  our  one  hundred  fallen  brothers  have 
done  for  us  in  taking  the  field  to  die  for  their  country  ?  The 
literary  talent  of  some  of  them  was  in  the  highest  grade  of 
promise,  yet  even  these  may  have  done  more  for  us  by  their 
death  than  they  could  have  done  by  their  life.  As  the  scholarly 
and  piquant  Winthrop  became  an  author  of  renown  only  after 
his  death  on  the  field  of  Big  Bethel,  so,  in  a  little  different 
sense,  may  it  be  true  of  them  all.  They  reverse,  how  touch¬ 
ingly,  the  fable  of  Anteus.  Instead  of  receiving  from  the 
earth,  when  they  touch  it,  a  giant  strength,  they  give  to  the 
earth,  as  it  takes  in  their  blood,  a  new  inspiration  for  all 
brothers  in  learning  for  long  ages  to  come  ;  and  so,  for  as  long 
a  time,  they  will  write,  and  speak,  and  sing,  in  myriads  of 
great  souls  coming  after.  Perhaps  we  should  not  think  of 
educating  men  to  be  used  in  dying,  yet  the  dying  nobly  and 
with  power  is  one  of  the  most  fruitful  and  dearest  uses  to 


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which  any  of  us  come — would  that  all  our  youth  could  see  it  ! 
Young  Carrington,  for  example,  had  just  come  to  the  flower  of 
his  graduation,  and  the  loss  of  so  great  promise,  before  the 
time  of  fruit,  seems  to  be  total.  Far  from  that  as  possible  ! 
How  many  of  his  comrades  have  been  impressed,  even  as  they 
do  not  know  themselves,  by  the  sacred  beauty  of  his  early 
sacrifice  ;  how  many  been  impregnated  in  their  own  flowering, 
with  those  best  and  highest  sentiments  that  never  set  their 
fruit,  after  men  are  past  their  flower.  I  know  not  what  the 
ingenious  and  versatile  Blake  might  have  written,  or  how,  or 
when,  the  lines  of  humor  he  took  so  nicely  by  his  eye,  and 
sketched  so  adroitly  by  the  off-hand  cunning  of  his  j)encil, 
might  have  flashed  into  words  and  brilliant  authorship  ;  but 
the  noble  successes  and  honors  of  his  soldier  life,  too  soon  cut 
short  in  the  fatal  fight  of  Cedar  Mountain,  have  turned  his 
key  of  humor  how  affectingly ;  showing  us  in  what  close  com¬ 
pany  a  high  soul  often  joins  the  heroic  impulse  with  exuberant 
play. 

Great  action  is  the  highest  kind  of  writing,  and  he  that 
makes  a  noble  character  writes  the  finest  kind  of  book.  To 
invent  is  one  thing,  to  become  is  another,  and  vastly  higher. 
Young  Rice,  for  example,  who  begins  a  private  and  ends  a 
brigadier,  rushed  up  the  steep  of  promotion  by  the  general 
acclaim  of  his  superiors — I  know  not  what  he  might  have 
written,  enough  to  know  what  he  was.  Nothing  makes  so 
grand  a  figure,  whether  in  fact  or  fiction,  as  a  character  of  high 
adventure  coupled  with  high  principle  ;  and  this  he  began  to 
show  before  he  became  a  soldier.  Thus,  being  in  great  trouble, 
after  his  graduation,  for  the  debt  incurred  in  his  studies,  he 
dared  exactly  what  few  young  men  could,  and  wdiat  still  fewer 
could  with  success  ;  he  put  himself  boldly  before  a  gentleman 
of  wealth  to  whom  he  was  a  perfect  stranger,  craving  the  loan 


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of  $^00,  engaging  to  repay  it  within  a  year,  from  an  expected 

income  in  teaching ;  and  so  well  did  he  manage  himself  and 

his  story  that  he  was  successful.  The  mere  personal  interest 

» 

he  excited  won  the  cause  for  him,  and  with  only  a  faint  glim¬ 
mer  of  expectation  that  the  money  would  ever  he  seen  again, 
it  was  cheerfully  put  in  his  hands.  But  before  the  appointed 
year  is  out,  behold  he  appears  with  his  fund  of  payment 
ready  !  Does  any  one  require  to  be  told  that  such  a  man  will 
fight  ?  or  that  he  will  do  it  well  and  faithfully  ?  Passing 
through  six  great  battles  and  shining  in  them  all,  he  fell  on 
the  banks  of  the  Po,  and  was  carried  to  the  field  hospital 
to  die.  In  the  death  struggle  which  shortly  followed,  he  asked 
to  be  turned  on  his  side.  “  Which  way  shall  we  turn  you  ?’’ 
u  Turn  my  face  to  the  enemy/'  he  replied,  gaspingly,  and  in 
these  six  words  the  book  God  gave  him  to  write  was  finished. 
It  was  a  book  all  action,  and  he  might  never  have  written  any 
other.  It  was  a  battle  fought  out  to  the  end,  in  the  *'£  front 
face  ”  manner  of  a  soldier  ;  but  it  was  none  the  less  a  poem,  a 
tragedy,  a  character  fascinatingly  drawn.  If  it  had  been  some¬ 
thing  to  compose  it,  as  by  literary  art,  how  much  more  to  be  it 
with  no  art  at  all  !  No,  my  brothers,  we  will  not  bewail  these 
dead  of  ours  to-day  as  being  lost  to  the  cause  of  letters  ;  for  the 
inspirations  and  the  grand  realities  of  letters  they  have  given 
up  their  lives  to  supply,  as  truly  as  to  save  their  country. 

I  might  also  speak  at  large,  if  I  had  time,  of  the  immense 
benefit  these  dead  have  conferred  upon  our  free  institutions 
themselves,  by  the  consecrating  blood  of  their  sacrifice.  But 
I  can  only  say  that  having  taken  the  sword  to  be  God's  minis¬ 
ters,  and  to  vindicate  the  law  as  his  ordinance,  they  have  done 
it  even  the  more  effectively  in  that  they  have  died  for  it.  It 
has  been  a  wretched  fault  of  our  people  that  we  have  so  nearly 
ignored  the  moral  foundations  of  our  government.  ^Regarding 


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it  as  a  merely  human  creation,  we  have  held  it  only  by  the 
tenure  of  convenience.  Hence  came  the  secession  ;  for  what  we 
create  by  our  will,  may  we  not  dissolve  by  the  same  ?  Bitter 
has  been  the  cost  of  our  pitifully  weak  philosophy.  In  these 
rivers  of  blood  we  have  now  bathed  our  institutions,  and  they 
are  henceforth  to  be  hallowed  in  our  sight.  Government  is 
now  become  Providential — no  more  a  mere  creature  of  our 
human  will,  but  a  grandly  moral  affair.  The  awful  stains  of 
sacrifice  are  upon  it,  as  upon  the  fields  where  our  dead  battled 
for  it,  and  it  is  sacred  for  their  sakes.  The  stamp  of  God's 
sovereignty  is  also  upon  it ;  for  he  has  beheld  their  blood  upon 
its  gate-posts  and  made  it  the  sign  of  his  passover.  Hence¬ 
forth  we  are  not  to  be  manufacturing  government,  and  defy¬ 
ing  in  turn  its  sovereignty  because  we  have  made  it  ourselves  ; 
but  we  are  to  revere  its  sacred  rights,  rest  in  its  sacred  immu¬ 
nities,  and  have  it  even  as  the  Caesar  whom  our  Christ  himself 
requires  us  to  obey.  Have  we  not  also  proved,  written  it  down 
for  all  the  ages  to  come,  that  the  most  horrible,  God-defying 
crime  of  this  world  is  unnecessary  rebellion  ? 

I  might  also  speak  of  the  immense  contribution  made  for 
religion,  by  the  sacrifices  of  these  bleeding  years.  Religion,  at 
the  first,  gave  impulse,  and,  by  a  sublime  recompense  of  reac¬ 
tion,  it  will  also  receive  impulse.  What  then  shall  we  look  for 
but  for  a  new  era  now  to  break  forth,  a  day  of  new  gifts  and 
powers  and  holy  endowments  from  on  high,  wherein  great 
communities  and  friendly  nations  shall  be  girded  in  sacrifice, 
for  the  cause  of  Christ  their  Master  P 

But  these  illustrations  must  not  be  continued  farther.  Such 
are  some  of  the  benefits  we  are  put  in  obligations  for  by  the 
dead  in  this  great  war.  And  now  it  remains  to  ask,,  by  what 
fitting  tribute  these  obligations  are  to  be  paid  P  And  it  sig- 


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nifies  little,  first  of  all,  to  say,  let  the  widows  of  these  dead 
he  widows,  and  their  children,  children  of  the  Republic.  Let 
them  also  he  the  private  care  of  us  all.  Let  the  childless 
families  adopt  these  fatherless.  Give  the  sons  and  daugh¬ 
ters  growing  up  the  necessary  education  ;  open  to  them  ways 
of  industry ;  set  them  in  opportunities  of  advancement.  Let 
our  whole  people  resolve  themselves  into  a  grand  Sanitary 
Commission,  for  these  after  blows  of  suffering  and  loss,  occa¬ 
sioned  by  the  war. 

Again,  it  is  another  of  the  sacred  obligations  we  owe  to  the 
dead,  that  we  sanctify  their  good  name.  Nothing  can  be  more 
annoying  to  the  sense  of  honor,  than  the  mischievous  facility 
of  some,  in  letting  down  the  merit  and  repute  of  the  fallen,  by 
the  flippant  recollection  of  their  faults,  or,  it  may  be,  of  their 
former  vices.  Who  have  earned  immunity  from  this  petty  kind 
of  criticism,  if  not  they  who  have  died  for  their  country  ?  How 
great  a  thing  has  it  been  for  many  in  this  war,  to  spring  into 
consciously  new  life,  in  the  ennobling  discovery  that  they  could 
have  a  great  feeling  ?  And  what,  in  the  plane  of  mere  nature, 
will  so  transform  a  man,  as  to  be  caught  by  the  heroic  impulse, 
and  begin  to  have  the  sense  of  a  cause  upon  him  P  Indeed  I 
am  not  sure  that  some  specially  heroic  natures  do  not  flag  and 
go  down  under  evil,  just  because  the  storm  they  were  made  for 
has  not  begun  to  blow.  Some  such  were  greater  souls  perhaps 
than  we  thought,  and  if  they  were  not  perfectly  great,  who  but 
some  low  ingrate  would  now  dim  their  halo  by  a  word  ?  And 
what  if  it  should  happen,  that  even  a  Congressional  Commit¬ 
tee  may  so  far  turn  themselves  into  a  committee  of  scandal,  as 
to  assail  with  unrighteous  facility  the  military  merit  of  the 
dead  ?  If  the  dead  cannot  answer,  what  shall  we  do  but 
answer  for  the  dead  ? 

A  great  work  also  is  due  from  us  to  the  dead,  and  quite  as 


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much  for  our  own  sakes  as  theirs,  in  the  due  memorizing  of 
their  names  and  acts.  Let  the  nation's  grand  war  monument 
he  raised  in  massive  granite,  piercing  the  sky.  Let  every  State, 
honored  by  such  names  as  Sedgwick,  and  Lyon,  and  Mansfield, 
claim  the  right  to  their  honors  for  the  future  ages,  by  raising, 
on  some  highest  mountain  top,  or  in  some  park  of  ornament, 
the  conspicuous  shaft,  or  pillar,  that  will  fitly  represent  the 
majesty  of  the  men.  The  towns  and  villages  will  hut  honor 
themselves,  when  they  set  up  their  humbler  monuments,  in¬ 
scribed  with  the  names  of  the  fallen.  Let  the  churches  also, 
and  the  college  halls  and  chapels,  show  their  mural  tablets, 
where  both  worship  and  learning  may  he  quickened  by  the 
remembrance  of  heroic  deeds  and  deaths.  In  this  way,  or 
some  other,  every  name  of  our  fallen  Alumni  should  he  con¬ 
spicuously  recorded  in  the  College  ;  that  our  sons  coming 
hither  may  learn,  first  of  all,  that  our  mother  gives  her  best  to 
die  for  their  country. 

There  should  also  he  given  to  the  public  a  carefully  prepared 
volume,  containing  distinct  notices  and  recollections  of  all  our 
Alumni  who  have  fallen  in  the  war,  and  have  held  a  figure 
sufficiently  public  to  be  distinctly  commemorated.  There  are 
many  such  names  that  I  should  like  to  present  for  your  partic¬ 
ular  remembrance  on  this  occasion  ;  such  as  Hebard,  and  But- 
ler,  and  Hannahs,  and  Roberts,  and  Porter,  and  Dutton,  and 
others  who  have  won  distinction  with  them.  I  have  already 
named  a  few  examples  from  the  general  list  in  another  con¬ 
nexion.  Excuse  me  if  I  briefly  commemorate  two  others  ; 
viz  :  Captain  William  Wheeler  and  Major  Henry  W.  Camp  ; 
doing  it  partly  for  my  own  satisfaction,  because  I  had  a  par¬ 
ticular  personal  interest  in  them. 

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Young  Wheeler’s  enlistment  in  an  Independent  Battery,  put 
him  completely  out  of  the  line  of  promotion ;  and  yet  it  must 


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have  come,  in  some  way  extraordinary,  shortly ;  indeed,  I  learn 
that  it  was  just  about  to  come,  by  a  stride  that  would  have 
set  him  in  a  high  position.  No  Captain  of  the  war  was  more 
efficient  or  more  perfectly  master  of  his  place”;  none  more 
thoroughly  idolized  in  the  love  and  pride  of  his  command. 
Sober,  and  cool,  and  clear-headed,  and  perfectly  a  man  in 
every  highest  quality  of  energy,  and  correct  principle,  and 
unfearing  devotion  to  his  cause,  he  was  already  grandly  pro¬ 
moted  in  the  judgment  of  all  who  knew  him.  Ordered  in  a 
severe  fight  to  shift  his  battery  to  another  position,  he  sent  it 
promptly  with  his  men,  and  having  a  piece  too  much  disabled 
to  he  moved,  he  could  not  leave  it,  hut  letting  go  his  horse, 
took  hold  with  a  sergeant,  and  they  two,  loading  and  firing  in 
a  battle  of  their  own,  levelled  their  aim  with  such  precision, 
while  the  enemy's  grape  were  spattering  on  the  gun,  that  they 
drove  hack  the  advancing  column  and  saved  the  piece.  How 
they  lived  a  moment  in  such  a  storm  nobody  could  guess  ;  hut 
alas  !  the  sharpshooter's  single  bullet  took  him  afterwards,  at 
a  post  of  honor  given  him  and  his  little  command — to  he 
maintained  by  them  alone — and  there  his  brave,  noble  chapter 
of  life  was  ended. 

Major  Camp  I  had  known  from  his  childhood  onward,  and 
had  watched  him  with  a  continually  growing  expectation  to 
the  last.  His  wondrously  fine  person,  was  a  faithful  type  of 
his  whole  character  and  power.  His  modesty  and  courage 
never  parted  company.  His  almost  over-delicate  conscience 
was  fitly  fortified  by  a  strong  unsubduable  will.  He  had  no 
flash  qualities,  but  was  always  unfolding  in  full  round  har¬ 
mony  with  himself.  As  a  man  he  scarcely  dared  to  think  him¬ 
self  a  Christian,  as  a  Christian  he  was  never  any  the  less  per¬ 
fectly  a  man.  My  impression  of  him  is  that  I  have  never 
known  so  much  of  worth,  and  beauty,  and  truth,  and  massive 
majesty — so  much,  in  a  word,  of  all  kinds  of  promise — em- 


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bodied  in  any  young  person.  Whatever  he  might  undertake, 
whether  to  be  a  poet,  or  a  philosopher,  or  a  statesman,  or  a 
preacher,  or  a  military  commander,  or  indeed  an  athlete,  he 
seemed  to  have  every  quality  on  hand  necessary  to  success. 
And  this  I  think  is  the  impression  of  him  that  every  reader  of 
his  noble  story  will  have  received.  When  he  fights  a  college 
boat  race  at  Worcester,  or  the  sea  at  Hatteras  Inlet,  or  the 
enemy  at  Newbern,  or  the  dreary  rigors  of  a  prison,  or  the 
impossible  rigors  of  an  escape,  it  makes  little  difference 
whether  he  is  successful  or  not,  everybody  sees  that  he  ought 
to  be.  Finally  paroled  and  released,  after  many  long  months 
of  confinement,  he  returns  home  on  a  short  furlough  ;  but 
hearing,  only  five  days  after,  that  he  has  been  exchanged,  he. 
tears  himself  away  from  furlough  and  friends,  and  is  off  in 
two  hours  time  for  his  regiment.  And  he  joins  them  on  the 
field  of  battle,  welcomed  by  the  acclamations  of  the  men  and 
the  hearty  cheers  of  the  command.  Though  he  has  a  nature 
gentle  as  a  woman's,  he  is  yet  called  the  Iron  Man,  and  the 
iron  property  was  abundantly  shown  again  and  again,  wherever 
that  kind  of  metal  was  wanted.  His  regiment,  always  relied 
on,  is  finally  brought  up  in  two  lines  to  head  an  assault,  and 
he  is  purposely  set  on  the  wing  of  the  second  line,  that  he 
may  not  be  thrown  away.  Believing  that  the  assault  must  be 
an  utter  failure,  for  that  was  the  opinion  of  all,  he  still  mod¬ 
estly  suggested  that  he  might  be  put  upon  the  forward  line  ! 
and  there  he  fell  riddled  with  bullets,  only  not  to  see  the  gen¬ 
eral  massacre  of  the  men.  0,  it  was  a  dark,  sad  day  that  cost 
the  loss  of  such  a  man  ! 

“  For  Lycidas  is  dead,  dead  ere  Ms  prime, 

Young  Lycidas,  and  hath  not  left  his  peer.” 

Little  does  it  signify  to  him,  though  much  to  us,  that  his 
memory  should  be  sanctified  by  some  enduring  record. 


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And  yet,  speaking  thus  of  particular  names  and  leaders  to 
be  commemorated,  it  is  impossible  not  to  be  troubled  by  a  cer¬ 
tain  feeling  of  absurdity,  that  our  honors  cannot  be  graded, 
after  all,  by  any  scale  of  justice.  Multitudes  of  the  bravest 
are  nameless ;  or,  if  we  find  their  names,  we  know  not  whose 
they  are,  or  where,  or  how  they  fell.  I  certainly  would  not 
diminish  the  glory  of  the  great  commanders,  whether  dead  or 
living.  Commanders  are  the  brain  of  all  movement  and  the 
soul  of  all  great  confidence,  gathering  up  in  their  person  whole 
divisions  and  armies,  and  hurling  them  forward  upon  victory. 
And  yet  how  much  does  it  signify  that  they  have  men  to 
inspire  and  lead  who  can  dare  to  be  men,  and  fight  in  the  sense 
of  a  cause.  And  if  we  speak  of  courage  to  die,  how  many 
thousands  who  were  only  privates,  and  are  now  without  a 
name,  have  faced,  each  one,  more  perils,  pitched  themselves 
into  more  cannons'  mouths  and  more  bayonetted  columns, 
than  all  the  Major-Generals  of  the  armies. 

Ten  color-bearers,  for  example,  seize  the  fatal  staff,  one  after 
another,  and  the  last  finally  plants  it  on  the  edge  of  the  para¬ 
pet  to  be  gained  !  Regiments  that  are  sworn  to  never  falter, 
pushed  into  the  assault  again  and  again  because  they  can  be 
relied  on,  bearing  off  their  dead  each  time  till  they  are  reduced 
to  a  handful,  yet  ready  to  halve  that  handful,  if  they  must, 
in  heading  an  assault  that  every  man  of  them  knows  to 
be  senseless — this  I  call  great  soldiership.  Make  due  note  too 
of  those  thousands  of  prisoners,  shut  up  in  the  pen  of  their 
captivity,  without  officers,  decimated  every  month  and  almost 
every  day  by  starvation,  yet  voting,  to  a  man,  that  they  will 
never  yield  their  allegiance  to  even  that  cogent  argument  !  Or 
go  through  the  wards  of  any  crowded  hospital,  where  the  men 
are  dying  every  hour,  and  catch  the  messages  they  send  to 
wife,  or  child,  or  sweetheart :  “  Say  that  I  am  gone ;  and  that, 


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never  having  once  regretted  my  enlistment,  I  willingly  die  for 
my  country.”  Who  of  you  does  not  ache  with  me  for  the 
impossibility  of  doing  justice  to  these  glorious  obscure,  these 
private  heroes  of  the  war.  What  ghostly  troops  of  them  had 
our  good  father  and  martyr  President  sent  on  before  him,  from 
all  his  fields  of  battle,  some  in  a  complexion,  if  souls  still  keep 
their  color,  not  his  own.  And  as  our  Abraham’s  bosom  was  never 
shut  to  such  on  earth,  much  more  tenderly  open  will  it  be  now. 
How  paternally  has  he  greeted  them  !  how  eagerly  caught  the 
sublime  story  of  their  soldiership  !  And  if  he  could  return 
again  to  his  office,  it  would  not  be  strange  if  he  should  send  in 
a  new  batch  of  Major-Generals  to  be  passed,  whom  the  Senate 
never  before  heard  of !  Really  this  wonderful  massing  of  pri¬ 
vate  worth  and  public  valor  in  our  armies,  is  the  proudest  fact 
of  the  war,  and  we  owe  it  to  ourselves  to  say  it,  and  make  our 
account  of  it,  in  whatever  way  we  are  able. 

But  there  is  one  other  and  yet  higher  duty  that  we  owe  to 
these  dead  ;  viz  :  that  we  take  their  places  and  stand  in  their 
cause.  It  is  even  a  great  law  of  natural  duty  that  the  living 
shall  come  into  the  places  and  works  of  the  dead.  The  same 
also  is  accepted  and  honored  by  Christianity,  when  it  shows 
the  Christian  son,  and  brother,  and  friend,  stepping  into  the 
places  made  vacant  by  the  dead,  to  assume  their  blessed  and 
great  work  unaccomplished,  and  die,  if  need  be,  in  the  testi¬ 
mony  of  a  common  martyrdom.  They  challenged,  in  this 
manner,  if  the  commentators  will  suffer  it,  the  vows  of  bap¬ 
tism,  and  “were  baptised  for  the  dead” — consecrated  upon 
the  dead,  for  the  work  of  the  dead.  God  lays  it  upon  us  in 
the  same  way  now,  to  own  the  bond  of  fealty  that  connects  us 
with  the  fallen,  in  the  conscious  community  and  righteous  kin¬ 
ship  of  their  cause.  And  then,  as  brothers  baptized  for  the 
dead — Alumni,  so  to  speak,  of  the  Republic — we  are  to  exe- 


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cute  their  purpose  and  fulfil  the  idea  that  inspired  them. 
Neither  is  it  enough  at  this  point  to  go  off  in  a  general  heroic, 
promising,  in  high  rhetoric,  to  give  our  life  for  the  country  in 
like  manner.  There  is  no  present  likelihood  that*  we  shall  he 
called  to  do  any  such  thing.  No,  hut  we  have  duties  upon  us 
that  are  closer  at  hand  ;  viz  :  to  wind  up  and  settle  this  great 
tragedy  in  a  way  to  exactly  justify  every  drop  of  blood  that 
has  been  shed  in  it.  Like  the  blood  of  righteous  Abel  it  cries 
both  to  us  and  to  God,  from  every  field,  and  river,  and  wood, 
and  road,  dotted  by  our  pickets  and  swept  by  the  march  of  ’ 
our  armies. 

First  of  all  we  are  sworn  to  see  that  no  vestige  of  State 
sovereignty  is  left,  and  the  perpetual,  supreme  sovereignty  of 
the  nation  established.  For  what  hut  this  have  our  heroes 
died?  Not  one  of  them  would  have  died  for  a  government  of 
mere  optional  continuance.  Not  one  for  a  government  fit  to 
he  rebelled  against.  But  they  volunteered  for  a  government 
in  perfect  right,  and  one  to  he  perpetual  as  the  stars,  and  they 
went  to  the  death  as  against  the  crime  of  hell.  Tell  me  also 
this, — if  a  government  is  good  enough  to  die  /or,  is  it  not  good 
enough  to  die  by ,  when  it  is  violated  ?  Not  that  every  traitor 
is,  of  course,  to  he  visited  by  the  punishment  of  treason.  It 
is  not  for  me  to  say  who,  or  how  many,  or  few,  shall  suffer 
that  punishment.  But  I  would  willingly  take  the  question  to 
the  dead  victims  of  Belle  Isle,  and  Salisbury,  and  Anderson- 
ville,  and  let  them  he  the  judges.  There  is  no  revenge  in 
them  now.  The  wild  storms  of  their  agony  are  laid,  and  the 
thoughts  which  hear  sway,  in  the  world  where  they  are  gath¬ 
ered,  are  those  of  the  merciful  Christ,  and  Christ  the  judge, 
before  whose  bar  they  know  full  well  that  their  redress  is  sure. 
And  yet  I  think  it  will  he  none  the  less  their  judgment  that 
something  is  due  to  law  and  justice  here.  As  too  it  was 


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something  for  them  to  die  for  the  law,  I  can  imagine  them  to 
ask  whether  it  is  not  something  for  the  law  to  prove  its  vindi¬ 
cated  honor  in  the  fit  punishment  of  such  barbarities  ?  May 
it  not  occur  to  them  also  to  ask,  whether  proportion  is  not  an 
everlasting  attribute  of  justice  ?  and  if  punctual  retribution 
is  to  follow  the  sudden  taking  otf  of  one,  whether  the  deliber¬ 
ate  and  slow  starvation  of  so  many  thousands  is  to  he  fitly 
ignored  and  raise  no  sword  of  judgment  ?  Neither  is  it  any¬ 
thing  to  say,  that  the  awful  ruin  of  the  rebellious  country  is 
itself  a  punishment  upon  the  grandest  scale,  and  ought  to  he 
sufficient ;  for  the  misery  of  it  is,  that  it  falls  on  the  innocent 
and  not  on  the  leaders  and  projectors,  who  are  the  chief  crimi¬ 
nals.  Our  liberal  friends  abroad  conjure  us  to  follow  the  lead 
of  their  despotisms,  and  cover  up  gently  all  these  offenses, 
because  they  are  only  political.  Ah  !  there  is  a  difference, 
they  j^eed  to  learn.  Doubtless  governments  may  be  bad 
enough  to  make  political  offenses  innocent ;  nay,  to  make  them 
even  righteous.  But  we  have  not  fought  this  dreadful  war  to 
a  close,  just  to  put  our  government  upon  a  par  with  their 
oppressive  dynasties  !  W e  scorn  the  parallel  they  give  us  ;  and 
we  owe  it  even  to  them  to  say,  that  a  government  which  is 
friendly,  and  free,  and  right,  protecting  all  alike,  and  doing  the 
most  for  all,  is  one  of  God's  sacred  finalities,  which  no  hand 
may  touch,  or  conspiracy  assail,  without  committing  the  most 
damning  crime,  such  as  can  be  matched  by  no  possible  severi¬ 
ties  of  justice.  We  are  driven  in  thus  on  every  side,  upon  the 
conclusion  that  examples  ought  to  be  and  must  be  made. 
Only  they  must  be  few  and  such  as  can  be  taken  apart  from 
all  sectional  conditions  ;  for  we  have  sections  to  compose,  and  . 
the  ordinary  uses  of  punishment  in  cases  of  private  treason  do 
not  pertain  where  the  crime  is  nearly  geographic,  and  is  scarcely 
different  from  public  war. 


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One  thing  more  we  are  also  sworn  upon  the  dead  to  do  ; 
viz  :  to  see  that  every  vestige  of  slavery  is  swept  clean.  We 
did  not  begin  the  war  to  extirpate  slavery,  hut  the  war  itself 
took  hold  of  slavery  on  its  way,  and  as  this  had  been  the  gan¬ 
grene  of  our  wound  from  the  first,  we  shortly  put  ourselves 
heartily  to  the  cleansing,  and  shall  not,  as  good  surgeons,  leave 
a  part  of  the  virus  in  it.  We  are  not  to  extirpate  the  form 
and  leave  the  fact.  The  whole  black  code  must  go  ;  the  law  of 
passes,  and  the  law  of  evidence,  and  the  unequal  laws  of  suit 
and  impeachment  for  crime.  We  are  hound,  if  possible,  to 
make  the  emancipation  work  well ;  as  it  never  can  till  the  old 
habit  of  domination,  and  the  new  grudges  of  exasperated  pride 
and  passion,  are  qualified  by  gentleness  and  consideration  ; 
otherwise  there  will  he  no  industry  hut  only  jangle ;  society  in 
fact  will  he  turned  into  a  hell  of  poverty  and  confusion.  And 

till  the  ejected 
and  despised  race  are  put  upon  the  footing  of  men,  and 
allowed  to  assert  themselves  some  how  in  the  laws.  Putting 
aside  all  theoretic  notions  of  equality,  and  regarding  nothing 
hut  the  practical  want  of  the  emancipation,  negro  suffrage 
appears  to  he  indispensable.  But  the  want  is  one  thing,  and  the 
right  of  compelling  it  another.  Our  States  have  always  made 
their  own  laws  of  suffrage,  and  if  we  want  to  resuscitate  the 
State  rights  doctrine,  there  is  no  so  ready  way  as  to  rouse  it 
by  State  wrongs.  But  there  is  always  a  way  of  doing  what 
wants  to  he  done — pardon  me  if  I  name  it  even  here  ;  for  our 
dead  are  not  asking  mere  rhetoric  of  us,  but  duty.  They  call 
us  to  no  whimpering  over  them,  no  sad  weeping,  or  doling  of 
soft  sympathy,  but  to  counsel  and  true  action.  I  remember, 
too,  that  we  have  taken  more  than  a  hundred  thousand  of  these 
freedmen  of  the  war  to  fight  our  common  battle.  I  remember 
the  massacre  of  Fort  Pillow.  I  remember  the  fatal  assault  of 


this  kind  relationship  never  can  be  secured, 


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Fort  Wagner  and  the  gallant  Shaw  sleeping  there  in  the  pile 
of  his  black  followers.  I  remember  the  bloody  fight  and  vie- 
tory  on  the  James,  where  the  ground  itself  was  black  with 
dead.  Ah  there  is  a  debt  of  honor  here  !  and  honor  is  never 
so  sacred  as  when  it  is  due  to  the  weak.  Blasted  and  accursed 
be  the  soul  that  will  forget  these  dead  !  If  they  had  no 
offices  or  honors,  if  they  fought  and  died  in  the  plane  of  their 
humility,  just  God,  forbid,  that  we  suffer  them  now  to  be 
robbed  of  the  hope  that  inspired  them  ! 

Do  then,  simply  this,  which  we  have  a  perfect  constitutional 
right  to  do, — -pass  this  very  simple  amendment,  that  the  basis 
of  representation  in  Congress  shall  hereafter  be  the  number, 
in  all  the  States  alike,  of  the  free  male  voters  therein.  Then 
the  work  is  done  ;  a  general  free  suffrage  follows  by  consent, 
and  as  soon  as  it  probably  ought.  For  these  returning  States 
will  not  be  long  content  with  half  the  offices  they  want,  and 
half  the  power  allowed  them  in  the  Republic.  Negro  suffrage 
is  thus  carried  without  even  naming  the  word. 

Need  I  add,  that  now,  by  these  strange  fortunes  of  the 
rebellion  rushing  on  its  Providential  overthrow,  immense  re¬ 
sponsibilities  are  put  upon  us,  that  are  new.  A  new  style  of 
industry  is  to  be  inaugurated.  The  soil  is  to  be  distributed 
over  again,  villages  are  to  be  created,  schools  established, 
churches  erected,  preachers  and  teachers  provided,  and  money 
for  these  purposes  to  be  poured  out  in  rivers  of  benefaction, 
even  as  it  has  been  in  the  w*ar.  A  whole  hundred  years  of 
new  creation  will  be  needed  to  repair  these  wastes  and  regen¬ 
erate  these  habits  of  wrong  ;  and  we  are  baptized  for  the  dead, 
to  go  forth  in  God's  name,  ceasing  not,  and  putting  it  upon 
our  children  never  to  cease,  till  the  work  is  done. 

My  task  is  now  finished  ;  only,  alas  !  too  feebly.  There  are 
many  things  I  might  say,  addressing  you  as  Alumni,  as  Pro- 


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fessors  and  Teachers,  and  as  scholars,  training  here  for  the  new 

age  to  come.  But  you  will  anticipate  my  suggestions,  and 

pass  on  by  me,  to  conceive  a  better  wisdom  for  yourselves. 

» 

One  thing  only  I  will  name,  which  is  fitting,  as  we  part,  for  us 
all ;  viz :  that,  without  any  particle  of  vain  assumption,  we 
swear  by  our  dead  to  be  Americans.  Our  position  is  gained  ! 
Our  die  of  history  is  struck  !  Thank  God  we  have  a  country ! 
And  that  country  the  chance  of  a  future  !  Ours  be  it  hence¬ 
forth  to  cherish  that  country,  and  assert  that  future  ;  also,  to 
invigorate  both  by  our  own  civilization,  adorn  them  by  our 
literature,  consolidate  them  in  our  religion  ;  resolved  also,  in 
God's  own  time,  to  champion,  by  land  and  sea,  the  right  of 
this  whole  continent  to  be  an  American  world,  and  to  have  its 
own  American  laws,  and  liberties,  and  institutions. 


% 


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At  the  conclusion  of  the  oration,  the  benediction  was  pro¬ 
nounced,  and  the  audience  dispersed.  An  hour  afterwards,  the 
procession  was  formed  again  in  front  of  Graduates’  Hall,  and 
entered  Music  Hall,  where  the  collation  had  been  prepared,  at 
half  past  three  o’clock. 

By  the  aid  of  a  Committee  of  gentlemen  and  ladies,  of 
which  Capt.  John  D.  Wheeler  was  Chairman,  the  Hall  had  been 
decorated  for  the  occasion  with  beautiful  and  striking  effect. 
Upon  the  stage,  behind  the  chair  of  the  President,  cannon  and 
small  arms,  draped  with  the  National  colors,  were  skillfully 
grouped  ;  streamers  of  red,  white,  and  blue,  hung  in  long  fes¬ 
toons  from  the  centre  of  the  lofty  ceiling,  and  flags,  not  a  few 
of  which — lent  by  the  State — had  seen  rough  service  in  the 
field,  met  the  eye  at  every  turn.  The  whole  of  the  main  floor 
was  occupied  by  long  tables,  handsomely  set  and  adorned  with 
flowers,  and  the  galleries  filled  with  ladies,  many  of  them  in 
bright  costumes,  gave  new  brilliancy  to  the  scene. 

Upon  white  shields,  hung  around  the  front  of  the  galleries, 
appeared  the  laurel-lettered  names  of  twenty-one  graduates  of 
Yale,  fallen  in  the  service.  These  were,  in  the  order  of  their 
arrangement  : — 


’62. 

Alexander. 
Mine  Run. 


’59. 

Carrington. 
St.  Marks. 


’59. 

Hannahs. 

Williamsburgh. 


’56. 

Peck. 


Winchester. 


’60. 

Ogden. 

Trevillian  Station. 


’59. 

Wheeler. 
Getty  sburgh. 


’47. 

Noyes. 

Corinth. 


’61. 

Clark. 

Richmond. 


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’55. 

’50. 

Wheeler. 

Manross. 

Culp’s  Farm,  Ga. 

Antietam. 

’62. 

’49.  * 

Skinner. 

Beecher. 

Petersburg!!. 

Cold  Harbor. 

’60. 

’57. 

Camp. 

Porter. 

Richmond. 

Winchester. 

’58. 

’57. 

Blake. 

Hutton. 

Cedar  Mountain. 

Cedar  Mountain*. 

’57. 

’57. 

Roberts. 

Butler. 

Murfreesboro.’ 

Suffolk. 

’45. 

’61. 

Redfield. 

Pratt. 

Allatoona. 

Hanover  Town. 

’48. 

WlNTHROP. 

Great  Bethel. 


The  different  Classes,  as  they  entered  the  Hall,  were  given 
seats  together,  as  far  as  possible,  the  head  of  the  room  being 
occupied  by  a  long  table,  fronting  the  others,  and  placed  upon 
a  raised  platform,  at  which  sat  the  President  of  the  Hay,  sup¬ 
ported  on  the  right  and  left  by  a  number  of  gentlemen  of  dis¬ 
tinction,  among  whom  were  His  Excellency,  Governor  Buck¬ 
ingham,  President  Woolsey,  Ex-President  Hay,  Rev.  Hr. 
Bushnell,  Major  General  Anderson,  Major  General  Schuyler 
Hamilton,  Brigadier  Generals  Parsons,  Ullmann,  Noble  of  Iowa, 
Noble  of  Connecticut,  Roberts,  Carrington,  Harland,  and  Ban- 
iel  Tyler,  Lieutenant  Governor  Averill,  Bishop  Smith  of  Ken¬ 
tucky,  Rev.  Hr.  Massie  of  London,  Rev.  Hr.  Sturtevant,  Pres¬ 
ident  of  Illinois  College,  and  Fitz  Greene  Halleck,  Esq. 

Grace  having  been  asked,  by  the  venerable  President  Hay, 
an  hour  was  spent  over  the  collation  and  in  social  conversation, 


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the  airs  u  Alma  Mater  ,''  “  Rally  round  the  Flag/'  and  “  Lau- 
riger  Horatius”  being  started  by  some  of  the  later  Classes, 
and  sung  with  full  chorus,  as  the  tables  were  being  cleared.* 
The  President  of  the  Day  then  rose,  and  having  called  the 
assembly  to  order,  said  : — 

Gentlemen  : — 

This  is  a  company  of  very  learned  men,  as  any  one  may 
see  by  looking  at  the  ticket  by  which  he  gained  admission 
here.  Some  may  have  failed  to  take  in  the  full  sense  of  the 
line  of  Sanscrit  which  dignities  this  card  which  I  hold  in  my 
hand,  from  inattention  to  its  profound  meaning.  For  such, 
and  such  only,  let  me  now  translate  it. 

“  This  ticket  procures  you  admission  into  an  assembly  of 
learned  and  cultivated  men,  where  each  guest  will  behave  with 
perfect  decorum,  and  submit  in  all  things  to  the  orders  of  the 
President,  and  no  one  will  make  a  speech  of  more  than  ten  min¬ 
utes  in  length.  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

What  but  a  most  scientific  language  could  have  expressed  in 
so  few  characters  so  long  and  sensible  a  code  for  our  conduct 
here  !  What  a  pity,  in  the  waste  of  words  of  modern  tongues, 
that  such  a  language  should  be  numbered  with  the  dead  ! 

It  is  not  known,  Gentlemen,  exactly  how  many  of  those  who 
have  gone  out  from  Yale  into  the  service  of  the  war  are  here 
present,  and,  as  they  are  much  dispersed  at  the  tables,  and 
many  are  in  citizens'  dress,  I  am  requested  to  ask  of  them  the 
favor  to  rise  in  their  places,  and  the  rest  of  the  company  to 
remain  seated,  while  some  direct  of  words  of  welcome,  in  the 
name  and  behalf  of  the  College  and  the  Alumni,  shall  be  ad¬ 
dressed  to  them  by  the  Chair.  I  shall  therefore  take  the  lib- 


*  The  Collation  was  provided  by  a  New  York  caterer,  at  the  price  of  four  dollars 
a  plate.  Besides  the  special  guests  of  the  day  and  a  few  other  gentlemen,  not  con¬ 
nected  with  the  College,  who  were  also  invited  to  join  in  the  festival,  about  four 
hundred  of  the  Alumni  were  at  the  table,  to  whom  tickets  of  admission  to  the  floor 
were  sold  at  the  price  of  three  dollars  each.  The  expense  of  the  celebration-, 
beyond  the  amount  received  from  the  sale  of  tickets,  was  met  by  a  subscription 
from  a  few  of  the  friends  of  the  College  in  New  Haven. 

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erty,  before  I  sit  clown,  of  asking  the  Soldiers  of  Yale,  who 
honor  us  with  their  presence  to-day,  that  they  will  thus  gratify 
their  friends,  composing  this  great  company,  by  the  opportu¬ 
nity  to  measure  their  number  and  recognize  their  persons. 

Gentlemen,  we  all  remember  the  Alumni  meeting  of  1861. 
There  were  no  soldiers  of  Yale  with  us  then,  but  there  was  a 
manly  spirit,  under  the  terrible  blow  our  pride  had  suffered 
from  the  rout  of  Bull  Run,  and  there  was  a  determined  pur¬ 
pose  to  repair  that  disaster  and  redress  that  disgrace.  This 
manly  spirit  has  since  shown  itself  in  the  conduct  of  our  breth¬ 
ren  on  many  fields  ;  this  purpose  has  been  fully  accomplished. 

What,  Gentlemen,  may  we  give  as  the  sum  of  what  these 
four  years  have  done  for  us  as  a  people  ?  For  more  than  a 
whole  generation,  we  had  been  constantly  growing  into  greater 
and  greater  hostilities  of  interest  and  of  feeling  ;  our  politics 
became  more  and  more  bitter  and  resentful,  our  people  more 
and  more  estranged,  till,  at  last,  the  peace  of  the  Constitution 
was  riven  asunder,  and  the  fate  of  the  nation  hung  on  the 
issues  of  war.  Indeed,  when  a  great  statesman  said,  as  be 
did,  thirty  years  ago,  “We  have  one  country,  one  constitution, 
one  destiny/'  he  used  words  of  rhetorical  prefiguration  or  of 
glorious  prophecy,  rather  than  of  description  of  our  actual  con¬ 
dition.  For,  what  shall  we  say  of  the  oneness  of  that  Con¬ 
stitution,  which  had  two  interpretations,  so  utterly  repugnant, 
so  bitterly  hostile,  as  to  place  in  constant  peril  the  permanence, 
the  supremacy  of  the  great  charter  ?  What  shall  we  think  of 
the  oneness  of  that  country  which  had  a  line  of  “border  states  ” 
running  right  through  the  middle  of  it  ?  What,  of  the  one¬ 
ness  of  that  destiny,  which  seemed  to  be,  only,  of  perpetual 
discord  or  eternal  separation  P  But  the  soldiers  of  this  war, 
in  its  triumphs,  have  given  us,  indeed,  “  One  Constitution,  one 
Country,  one  Destiny."  (Loud  and  prolonged  applause.) 

What  in  History,  what  in  the  course  of  Providence  in  this 
world’s  affairs,  shall  be  counted  as  the  purpose  and  the  result 
of  this  war  ?  The  great  problem  of  American  statesmanship, 
from  the  formation  of  our  Government,  has  been,  to  rid  the 
country  of  the  institution  of  slavery,  without  the  destruction  of 
society.  So  long  and  so  surely  as  it  must  be  the  inevitable,  the 


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inexorable  law  of  every  structure, — whether  of  the  natural 
body,  or  of  mechanical  forces,  or  of  mind  or  political  organiza¬ 
tions, — *that  the  measure  of  its  strength  and  permanence  is 
ever  in  its  weakest  point,  so  long  and  so  surely  has  the  presence 
of  slavery  in  our  system  been  the  check  of  our  pride,  and  the 
menace  of  our  safety.  But,  alas  !  for  hum&n  wisdom  and  for 
human  courage,  who  could  plan,  who  could  execute  the  means 
of  the  deliverance  of  future  generations  at  the  cost,  to  the  pres¬ 
ent,  of  the  terrors  and  the  ruin  which  alone  could  purchase 
their  ransom  ?  Who  should  throw  this  young  giant  upon  his 
hack,  and  plant  Ossa  upon  his  knees,  and  Pelion  upon  his 
breast,  until  the  knife  and  the  cautery  of  war  should  extir¬ 
pate  the  body  of  this  death,  which  was  so  fast  encroaching 
upon  his  life  ?  Who  should  stop  the  whirl  and  whiz  of  the 
vast  and  manifold  machinery  of  a  wealthy,  populous,  impetu¬ 
ous,  strenuous,  powerful  nation,  till  the  weak  shaft  should  he 
withdrawn,  and  its  great  forces  he  permitted  to  “  move  all  one 
way,”  in  equal  and  cooperative  strength  and  harmony  ?  Who 
hut  the  same  God  who  cared  for  our  fathers,  in  their  day,  and 
made  us  a  nation  through  the  war  of  our  independence,  could 
perform  this  miracle  of  our  rescue  and  salvation  ? 

We  may  be  sure  then,  Gentlemen,  that  in  the  record  of  this 
great  transaction,  imposing  as  its  details  are,  valuable  as  its 
impressions  upon  our  people  are  in  innumerable  ways,  all  will 
seem  hut  casual  and  circumstantial,  compared  with  the  grand 
design  and  grand  result,  which,  in  the  destruction  of  the  sys¬ 
tem  of  slavery,  has  secured  the  uniformity,  and  so  the  peace 
and  the  permanence  of  our  free  institutions. 

Sons  of  Yale  College  who  have  served  in  the  war,  and  thus 
actively  and  directly  contributed  to  this  happy,  this  wonderful 
consummation  ! — (The  soldiers,  dispersed  at  the  many  tables 
which  filled  the  hall,  here  rose,  showing  a  great  number,  and 
the  whole  company  loudly  cheered,) — This  whole  day's  pro¬ 
ceedings  have  been,  and  are  to  be  in  your  honor.  The  elo¬ 
quence  of  our  Orator,  in  commemmorating  your  companions, 
who  shall  return  no  more  to  us  nor  to  their  homes,  has  but 
illustrated  the  sentiments  with  which,  in  this  scene  of  un¬ 
checked  festivity,  we  crown  with  our  applause  the  many  chil- 


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dren  of  Yale  who  answered  the  country's  call  to  arms,  and  yet 
survive  to  receive  its  grateful  honors. 

There  is  nothing  which  we  can  do  to  express  our  *joy  and 
pride  in  you  that  shall  be  wanting.  We  felt  that  our  College 
was  of  public  service  in  the  sphere  of  its  influence.  We  knew 
that  it  prepared  its  scholars  for  all  the  arts  of  peace.  We 
knew  that  it  laid  the  foundation,  and  furnished  the  instruction 
for  solid  and  useful  thinking.  You  have  shown  us  that  there 
is  no  better  discipline,  no  richer  nor  more  forcible  impulse,  to 
solid  and  useful  action.  We  knew  how  important  it  was  for 
those  who  wo  nil  serve  the  state  in  any  department  of 
public  influence,  to  attain  proficiency  in  eloquence  of  the  lips. 
You  have  shown  us  how  much  wider  audience, — even  as  wide 
as  the  world, — listens  to  the  eloquence  of  lives  devoted  to 
their  country. 

Remote,  Gentlemen,  as  the  action  of  your  lives  for  the  last 
four  years  may  at  first  sight  appear,  far  from  the  path  to 
which  your  education  here  was  designed  to  introduce  you,  yet 
the  most  distinct  and  satisfactory  authority  for  every  step  you 
have  taken  may  be  found  in  the  diploma,  with  which  you  were 
dismissed  from  these  walls.  Let  me  recall  its  learned  phrase 
and  comprehensive  commission  : — “Pro  auctoritate  mihi  com- 
missa,  admitto  vos  ad  primum  in  artibus  gradum,  et  trado 
vobis  hoc  instrumentum  und  cum  potestate  publice  praelegen- 
di”  that  is  to  say,  (as  everything  is  to  be  reasonably  construed 
according  to  circumstances,)  “  together  wutli  the  privilege  of 
publicly  expressing  your  mind  with  guns  and  cannon,  sword 
and  bayonet,  shot  and  shell,"  “  ubicunque  et  quotiescunque  ," 
u  on  every  battlefield  and  as  long  as  the  war  lasts,"  “  ad  hoc 
munus  evocati  fueritis ,"  “  whenever  by  drum-beat  or  bugle- 
note,  ye  shall  have  been  called  out  to  this  military  duty." 
(Loud  laughter  and  cheers.) 

And  now,  for  the  rest,  Gentlemen,  we  propose  to  consider 
and  to  take  counsel  with  you,  how  best,  by  some  permanent 
memorial,  we  may  connect  the  fame  of  the  College  with  the 
honors  which  you  and  your  brave  companions  have  gained  for 
it  and  yourselves,  and  how  we  may  most  surely  make  your 
noble  example  fruitful  of  equal  devotion  to  our  country,  with 


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the  future  generations  of  scholars  that  shall  go  forth  from  these 
ancient  halls.  (Applause.) 

As  the  President  took  his  seat,  Prof  Silliman  called  for  three 
cheers  for  the  Warriors  of  Yale,  and  they  were  given  with  a 
will,  the  whole  audience  springing  to  their  feet,  hats  and  caps 
flying  up  from  the  floor,  and  handkerchiefs  waving  from  the 
galleries. 

The  President  . — 

It  is  impossible  for  us  to  allow  any  very  long  speeches  here  : 
it  is  equally  impossible  to  allow  any  very  long  gaps.  Rufus 
Choate  was  once  asked  by  a  learned  referee,  before  whom  he 
was  engaged  in  a  trial,  whether  he  did  not  think  there  might 
be  hiati  in  certain  proceedings.  Impossible,  said  Mr.  Choate. 
Why  so  P  asked  the  referee.  Because,  Mr.  Choate  replied,  hia¬ 
tus  is  a  noun  of  the  fourth  declension.  (Prolonged  laughter.) 
And  so,  gentlemen,  there  must  be  no  u  hiati ”  in  the  proceed¬ 
ings  of  this  assembly. 

The  first  sentiment  or  subject  upon  which  we  shall  call  for  a 
speech  is, — The  Union  Restored. — One  Constitution,  One 
Country,  One  Destiny.  (Cheers.)  Gov.  Buckingham  will 
respond.  (Great  applause.) 

Gov.  Buckingham  : — 

Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen  : — The  sentiment  that  the 
Union  is  restored,  is  in  opposition  to  the  declaration  which  was 
made  more  than  four  years  ago,  that  the  powers  of  the  general 
government  had  determined,  and  that  all  allegiance  to  that 
government  had  ceased.  It  is  also  in  opposition  to  that  decla¬ 
ration,  by  one  of  the  Presidents  of  the  United  States,  who 
said,  that  the  officers  of  the  government  had  no  power  to  co¬ 
erce  a  sovereign  State.  Notwithstanding  these  opposing  decla¬ 
rations,  it  is  proved  that  the  Union  is  restored.  It  has  been 
restored  by  the  self-sacrificing  devotion  of  the  people  of  the 
Union  to  the  interests  of  the  government.  It  has  been  restored 
because  the  people  have  been  united,  and  have  moved  under 
the  common  feeling,  that  interests  involved  in  the  presevation 
of  this  government,  were  interests  essential  to  the  rights  of 


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Man.  The  people  of  this  and  of  other  States  have  united  in 
manifesting  their  determination  to  preserve  this  government, 
at  whatever  cost,  and  let  the  sacrifices  required  he  however 
great.  If  the  question  had  been  asked,  how  long  will  this  peo¬ 
ple  carry  the  burdens  of  civil  war,  the  only  true  answer  which 
could  be  made,  was  this, — -just  so  long  as  the  people  love  lib¬ 
erty  more  than  they  love  self-indulgence,  so  long  will  they  bear 
the  burdens  of  civil  war,  even  if  it  carried  every  member  of 
this  generation  down  to  his  grave. 

This  Union  has  been  preserved  by  the  power  of  the  navy  and 
army  of  the  United  States.  It  is  this  army  which  is  the  evi¬ 
dence  of  the  spirit  of  patriotism  which  pervaded  the  nation. 
It  is  this  army  which,  in  connection  with  the  navy,  has  given 
us  the  power  which  has  subdued  the  rebellion.  It  is  this  army 
which  has  stopped  the  mouths  of  those  who  have  justified  se¬ 
cession  and  rebelion.  It  is  the  army,  so  proud  and  valiant  in 
fight,  which  has  captured  and  put  to  flight  the  armies  of  the 
enemy.  Sir,  do  we  not  owe  the  army,  and  the  brave  men  who 
composed  it,  whatever  we  have,  and  ought  we  not,  with  all  the 
power  we  are  able  to  command,  to  testify  our  appreciation  of 
the  great  labors  and  the  great  results  they  have  accomplished  ? 
Surely,  I  should  be  false  to  my  position,  and  to  those  whom  I 
represent,  if  we  did  not  pledge  to  them,  now  and  ever,  all  that 
is  in  our  hearts  which  testifies  to  our  gratitude  and  apprecia¬ 
tion  of  their  services. 

Mr.  President,  this  army  has  been  composed  of  men  from 
every  part  of  the  North.  Every  State  has  done  its  duty  ;  and 
I  may,  perhaps,  say  without  boasting,  that  Connecticut  has 
furnished  more  than  six  thousand  men  over  her  quota.  (Loud 
cheers.)  And  in  doing  this,  Connecticut  has  done  no  more 
than  her  duty.  And  I  am  happy  co  say  this  also,  that  wher¬ 
ever  Connecticut  troops  have  been,  they  have  brought  no  re¬ 
proach,  no  dishonor  upon  the  country,  and  have  made  no  blot 
upon  the  history  of  this  little  Commonwealth.  Having  fur¬ 
nished  more  than  54,000  men,  and  more  than  140,000  years  of 
service,  if  she  has  not  furnished  as  many  as  some  of  the 
larger  States,  I  hesitate  not  to  state  that  it  has  been  made  up 
in  the  energy  and  spirit  of  her  troops. 


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Mr.  President,  I  see  aiound  me  names  which  fill  my  heart, 
and  the  hearts  of  others,  with  profound  emotion.  Some  among 
them  remind  me  of  those  who  are  buried  in  unknown  graves  ; 
hut  when  the  marble  which  marks  the  resting  place  of  others 
shall  have  crumbled  into  dust,  the  names  of  those  around  me, 
and  of  all  who  have  been  their  companions  in  the  service,  will 
stand  out  proudly  on  the  roll  of  honor  of  the  sons  of  Yale, 
and  be  as  enduring  as  the  history  of  the  College  and  the  his¬ 
tory  of  Connecticut.  (Applause.) 

The  President  called  for  three  cheers  for  Governor  Bucking¬ 
ham,  the  soldiers’  friend, — and  the  heartiness  of  the  response 
showed  that  the  value  of  His  Excellency’s  services,  throughout 
the  War,  was  known  and  appreciated  by  the  assembly. 

The  Band  then  played  u  The  Land  of  the  Free  and  the  Home 
of  the  Brave  !” 

The  President  : — 

Allow  me,  Gentlemen,  now  to  give  you,  with  some  accuracy, 
fhe  statistics  of  our  roll  of  honor  in  the  war. 

The  whole  number  of  graduates  of  the  academical  depart¬ 
ment  of  Yale  College  in  the  Union  army  and  navy  has  been 
444.  The  alumni  of  the  theological,  medical,  law,  and  scien¬ 
tific  schools  in  the  Union  army,  not  counted  in  the  previous 
enumeration,  is  97.  To  these  are  to  be  added  the  names  of 
those  who  for  any  length  of  time  have  been  in  the  direct  ser¬ 
vice  of  the  Sanitary  and  Christian  Commissions,  numbering  24, 
— making  a  total  of  the  alumni  of  Yale  College,  thus  connected 
with  the  Union  service,  565,  Besides  these,  we  should  count 
in  students  of  the  College,  non-graduates  and  undergraduates. 
Of  the  non-graduates  who  have  been  in  the  College  Classes 
since  the  war  began, — the  Classes  of  ’61  to  ’64, — there  have 
been  124.  Hardly  any  attempt  has  been  made  to  collect  the 
names  of  the  non-graduates  of  the  earlier  Classes.  But  of 
these  we  have  the  names  of  48,  making  in  all, 

Non-graduates  and  undergraduates,  .  .  .  172 

Graduates,  ........  565 

Total,  ......  737 

(Loud  and  prolonged  cheers.) 


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Now,  Gentlemen,  this  number  is  a  very  great  one  in  itself ; 
but  when  we  count  it  as  a  percentage  upon  the  numbers  of 
our  students  now  living,  with  whom  the  comparison  should  be 
made,  you  see  at  once  bow  creditable  the  proportion  is.  The  Col¬ 
lege  Triennial  issued,  or  to  bo  issued  to-morrow,  gives  us  as  the 
number,  about  3,500  ;  but  when  we  consider  that  the  percent¬ 
age  of  military  service  should  be  compared  with  the  number  ca¬ 
pable  of  performing  active  military  duties,  it  will  probably  be 
much  above  the  mark  to  say  there  are  2,400,  of  the  3,500,  who 
should  be  counted  from  the  classes  of  the  last  thirty  years,  and  so 
are  within  the  military  age.  Take  600  as  the  number  to  be  cred¬ 
ited  to  the  College,  and  2,400  as  the  number  of  her  graduates 
of  the  military  age,  and  you  have  twenty-five  per  cent,  of  the 
whole  number  !  Who  has  done  better  than  this  P  Who  can 
say  that  any  class  of  my  patriotic  countrymen  has  done  better 
than  the  students  of  Yale  ! 

I  had  the  honor,  as  the  organ  of  this  celebration,  to  address 
a  telegram  to  the  President  of  the  United  States, — and  I  have 
the  greater  honor  to  announce  the  telegraphic  reply. 

Ours  was  as  follows  : — 

New  Haven,  July  26. 

To  His  Excellency  Andrew  Johnson,  President  of  the  United 
States  : — The  graduates  of  Yale  College,  assembled  in  com¬ 
memoration  of  their  associates  who  have  served  in  the  war, 
send  their  respectful  greetings  to  the  President  of  the  United 
States.  May  it  he  his  honor  successfully  to  achieve  the  work 
to  which  he  is  called,  of  restoring  peace  and  order  to  the  coun¬ 
try  for  the  defense  of  which  so  many  of  our  brethren  have  per¬ 
iled  and  offered  up  their  lives. 

WM.  M.  EVAKTS,  Chairman. 

To  which  the  President  replied  : — 

Washington,  July  26. 

Hon.  Wm,  M.  Evarts,  Chairman,  &c.,  Yale — I  thank  you, 
and  through  you,  the  graduates  of  Yale,  for  their  kind  greet¬ 
ing.  In  the  difficult  and  delicate  duties  before  me,  I  rely  upon 
the  support  of  the  same  intelligent  patriotism  which,  during 
the  war,  has  given  so  many  noble  lives  and  deeds  to  our  country. 
American  scholarship  has  gained  undying  honor  by  its  contri¬ 
butions  to  the  literature  and  the  achievements  of  our  recent 
struggle  for  national  existence,  and  in  the  victories  of  peace 


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which  I  trust  are  now  to  come,  American  scholarship  will  sus¬ 
tain  the  reputation  it  has  won. 

Very  truly,  your  friend, 

ANDREW  JOHNSON. 

Three  cheers  were  given  for  the  President  of  the  United 
States  ;  after  which,  the  Band  played,  u  Hail  to  the  Chief” 

The  President  : — 

Besides,  Gentlemen,  our  own  military  men,  we  are  hon¬ 
ored  with  the  presence  here,  to-day,  of  some  other  distin¬ 
guished  soldiers,  two  of  whom  I  shall  have  the  honor  to 
present  to  you  We  delight  to  honor  the  true  military  hero¬ 
ism  of  our  country,  from  whatever  section,  and  by  whatever 
services  it  may  have  been  nurtured  and  trained.  I  have  the 
pleasure  of  introducing  to  you  Major  Gen.  Robert  Anderson. 

At  this  announcement,  the  audience  rose  to  their  feet  and 
welcomed  the  General  with  loud  and  prolonged  cheers. 

Gen.  Anderson  : — 

Mr.  President  and  friends : — I  am  so  overwhelmed  by 
your  kind  welcome,  that  I  dare  not  venture  to  express  in  words 
my  sentiments  and  feelings.  I  can,  therefore,  only  bow  my 
acknowledgments,  and  take  my  seat. 

The  President  : — 

I  do  not  know  how  more  fortunately,  the  memories 
of  the  revolution  and  its  military  heroism,  could  be  blended 
with  the  memory  and  military  renown  of  this  struggle,  than 
in  the  name  and  person  of  one  of  our  guests.  ^ 

In  one  person,  I  have  the  honor  to  present  to  you  the  great- 
grand-son  of  Gen.  Schuyler,  the  grand-son  of  Gen.  Alexander 
Hamilton,  and  General  Schuyler  Hamilton  himself. 

The  audience  again  rose,  and  welcomed  the  General  with 
three  hearty  cheers. 

Gen.  Hamilton  : — 

I  was  at  Island  No.  10,  and  as  our  President  has  pre¬ 
sented  us  with  one  instance  of  great  learning,  if  I  shall 
give  you  any  bad  Latin,  I  shall  beg  him  to  correct  me. 
If  I  remember  rightly,  Caesar,  on  a  certain  occasion,  described 


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one  of  his  great  achievments  in  three  words, —  Vent,  vidi ,  vici. 
So  our  army  at  Island  No.  10,  could  have  said, — We  came,  we 
saived ,  we  conquered. 

>  » 

The  President  : — 

Caesar  would  have  been  very  glad  to  have  an  oppor¬ 
tunity  to  show  as  much  military  genius  as  our  army 
did  at  Island  No.  10,  and  he  would  have  been  very  lucky, 
if  able  to  express  himself  in  such  good  English  as  the  gentle¬ 
man.  (Laughter  and  cheers.) 

There  is  a  toast  that  we  always  honor, — and  wherever 
we  honor  the  children  of  Yale,  we  honor  the  mother  of 
those  children.  Let  the  soldiers  forget  for  the  moment  their 
prominence  for  the  day,  and  let  them  join  with  us,  the  com¬ 
mon  scholars  of  Yale,  in  giving, — The  honor  and  prosperity 
of  our  Alma  Mater ,  from  whose  full  breasts  we  have  drawn 
the  nutriment  of  our  intellectual  life.  I  will  call  upon 
President  Woolsey.  (Applause  and  cheers.) 

President  Woolsey  : — 

The  good  mother  whom  we  call  our  Alma  Mater  has  never, 
since  my  remembrance,  appeared  in  public.  She  has  too  much 
matronly  dignity  for  that.  Accordingly,  she  employs  her  do¬ 
mestics  to  represent  her.  I  appear  at  this  time,  as  the  head- 
waiter,  or,  to  change  the  figure,  as  the  poor  tutor  of  the  children . 

Some  persons  say  that  in  modern  times  we  have  degenerated, 
because  the  instruction  at  College  is  furnished  at  a  little  later 
hour  in  the  morning.  I  claim  it  is  just  as  good  as  it  used  to 
be,  when  it  was  at  five  o'clock  in  summer.  (Laughter  and  ap¬ 
plause.) 

Mr.  President :  as  representing  Alma  Mater ,  it  gives  me 
heart-felt  pleasure  and  pride  to  meet  with  you  at  this  time,  and 
to  hear  such  statistics  as  you  have  given  to  the  company.  It 
is  our  joy  and  our  boast,  that  we  have  not  been  insensible 
to  the  claims  that  the  country  has  upon  us.  And  while,  Mr. 
President,  we  go  back  to  the  past,  and  feel  that  the  long  course 
of  years  since  1701,  or  1702,  when  the  College  was  founded, 
furnishes  us  a  glorious  history ;  while  we  remember  the  distin¬ 
guished  theologians  that  have  gone  hence,  from  the  Edwardses, 


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Dwiglits  and  Bellamys,  down  to  the  modern  list,  with  Taylor 
at  their  head  ;  while  we  remember  the  distinguished  statesmen, 
and  poets,  the  Hillhouses  and  Percivals  ;  the  men  of  science, 
the  Sillimans,  the  Morses,  the  Danas,  and  hosts  of  others  ; 
while  we  think  of  the  long  and  honored  list  of  illustrious  men 
in  various  walks  of  life,  who  are  numbered  among  the  children 
of  Yale,  we  rejoice  that  these  past  few  years  have  added  to 
that  history  a  new  and  brilliant  page.  As  we  read  the  names 
upon  this  Roll  of  Honor,  we  feel  that  their  well  earned  fame  is 
a  part  of  our  stock  in  trade.  Our  young  brethren  who  have 
recently  given  themselves  up,  from  principle,  to  the  service  of 
their  country,  have,  by  their  courage,  labors,  sufferings  and 
bloody  sacrifices,  endowed  their  Alma  Mater  with  a  brilliant 
military  renown.  We  rejoice  that  the  motive  that  led  so  many 
to  the  war,  was  not  the  love  of  reputation,  nor  the  love  of  ad¬ 
venture,  nor  any  lower  motive  ;  hut  mingled  with  and  rising 
above  all,  a  pure,  disinterested  patriotism.  And  we  rejoice 
to  believe  that  this  patriotism  was  kindled  under  the  influence 
and  within  the  walls  of  their  Alma  Mater. 

Mr.  President,  just  before  me,  at  the  other  end  of  the  hall, 
I  find  the  name  of  one  who  died  at  Big  Bethel,  a  graduate  of  the 
Class  of  *48.  On  the  day  upon  which  he  left  New  York,  he 
wrote  to  me  and  said  : — u  I  go  down  to  the  front  for  the  pur- 
poseftof  lending  my  aid  to  the  great  work  of  attempting  to  get 
rid  of  slavery  in  this  country/' 

And  I  see  another  name  here, — the  name  of  a  noble  Christ¬ 
ian,  Eugene  Butler,  who  went  from  pure,  disinterested  motives 
of  duty,  and  who  died  in  the  act  of  giving  a  cup  of  water  to 
an  exhausted  soldier  of  another  regiment.  Think,  too,  of 
Rice,  that  noble  man,  who  told  his  soldiers  that  this  was  God’s 
war, — not  our  war,  but  God’s  war.  When  I  think  of  such 
things,  I  rejoice  that  these  high  principles  have  animated  our 
young  men.  They  furnish  a  more  substantial  foundation  of 
honor,  than  all  the  scholarships  and  all  the  science  in  this 
country. 

As  President  Woolsey  took  his  seat,  amid  warm  cheering, 
a  pyramid  of  confectionery  tottered  and  fell  over  upon  the 
table  before  him. 


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The  President  : — 

We  must  all  admit,  Gentlemen  that  President  Woolsey  has 
been  more  attractive  by  his  eloquence  than  was  Pericles, 
upon  whose  lips  the  bee  settled,  for  a  whole  avalanche  of 
sweet  things  has  now  settled  upon  him.  (Laughter  and  cheers.) 
We  must  agree  that,  since  the  world  began,  no  speaker, 
probably,  ever  received  so  candied  a  tribute  to  his  oratory. 
(Great  laughter.) 

We  have  heard  of  the  influence  and  discipline  of  Yale  in 
preparing  the  public  mind  for  the  war  and  its  duties,  and  of 
its  special  influence  upon  its  own  scholars,  in  sending  them 
forth  to  participate  in  the  great  contest.  We  feel,  also,  the 
influence  of  the  scholar  on  the  activities  of  war, — of  the  scholar 
in  the  army, — and  I  have  the  pleasure  of  calling  upon  the  Kev. 
Dr.  Thompson,  of  New  York,  to  express  his  sentiments  on  this 
occasion. 

Dr.  Thompson  : — 

Mr.  President : — Were  you  and  I  called  upon  to  name  that 
instant  of  time  in  the  last  four  years,  when  our  souls  were 
most  deeply  stirred,  and  thrilled  with  patriotic  devotion,  and 
even  awed,  as  by  the  voice  of  God,  speaking  audibly  through 
the  people,  we  would  go  back  to  that  day  when  we  stood  to¬ 
gether  in  Union  Square, — where  the  statue  of  Washington  was 
draped  with  the  torn  flag  of  Sumter, — and  looked  upon  that 
vast  concouse  of  all  nationalities,  parties  and  faiths,  swearing 
fidelity  to  the  flag  of  our  country,  in  the  presence  of  its  first 
brave  defenders.  And  that  meeting  in  New  York  was  the  type 
of  a  simultaneous  movement  all  over  the  land.  Those  guns  in 
the  harbor  of  Charleston  were  the  signal  for  the  uprising  of  a 
great  people.  The  people  in  their  masses, — the  people  in  their 
majesty,  then  presented  a  spectacle  that  is  unparalleled  in  his¬ 
tory  ; — a  whole  nation  moved  by  their  own  will  to  sacrifices 
before  unknown  for  the  preservation  of  their  common  country. 

Yet,  by  and  by,  those  earlier  impulses  of  patriotism  sensibly 
subsided.  For  a  while,  the  rent  flag,  the  booming  cannon, 
and  the  heroes  of  Sumter,  sufficed  to  keep  alive  the  devotion  of 
the  masses  ;  but  it  was  soon  apparent  that  some  deeper  impulse 
was  necessary  to  sustain  a  protracted  war.  But  as  these  pop- 


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ular  cries  began  to  flag,  there  came  other  voices,  sounding 
through  the  ages,  reminding  us  that  this  was  not  a  mere  strug¬ 
gle  for  the  strongholds  of  armies  ;  that  it  was  not  a  mere  battle 
of  physical  forces  ;  hut  that  it  was  a  war  of  ideas,  that  it  was 
a  battle  for  principles,  the  same  principles  that  the  grand  he¬ 
roes  of  liberty  had  fought  for,  centuries  ago.  I  seemed  to  see 
that  courtly  scholar  who  combined  in  himself  the  wealth  of  two 
Universities,  looking  from  the  field  of  Zutphen, — where  he 
gave  his  rich  life  to  resist  the  encroachments  of  Spanish  des¬ 
potism, — across  to  this  Western  hemisphere,  and  summoning  us, 
by  that  heroic  sacrifice,  to  withstand  the  despotism  of  slavery. 
I  seemed  to  see  John  Hampden, — lawyer,  gentleman,  states¬ 
man,  soldier, — rising,  with  shattered  limb,  from  the  field  of 
Chalgrove,  and  looking  hither,  to  see  who  would  stand  forth  to 
represent  in  our  age  the  principles  to  which  he  gave  his  schol¬ 
arly  training  and  patriotic  devotion.  And  Milton  once  more 
laid  aside  his  dear  companionship  with  books,  and  looked  hither 
to  see  who  would  maintain  the  u  good  old  cause"  with  the  pen, 
which,  in  his  hand,  was  mightier  than  the  sword. 

Thoughtful  men,  scholarly  men,  heard  these  voices  of  the 
ages,  this  summons  of  the  mighty  dead,  and  came  to  consecrate 
themselves  to  the  same  work.  The  President  of  Kenyon 
College,  an  accomplished  scholar  and  a  leader  of  education  in 
the  West,  was  one  of  the  first  to  raise  a  regiment  in  Ohio  ;  he 
planted  himself  at  its  head,  and  fell  in  Western  Virginia. 
Hubbard,  of  your  own  town,  not  content  with  the  routine 
services  of  his  office,  so  burdened  himself  with  voluntary  sac¬ 
rifices,  that  he  sank  under  his  labors  for  the  army.  Davis,  the 
admiral,  left  his  favorite  pursuits  of  mathematical  science,  to 
go  and  teach  new  lessons  in  circular  sailing  at  Port  Royal  ! 
Clark  forsook  his  laboratory  at  Amherst,  and  after  good  ser¬ 
vice  in  our  cause,  came  back,  happily,  unharmed.  And  we 
never  can  forget  “  Old  Stars," — as  the  boys  used  to  call  him — 
who  carried  into  the  military  service  the  same  enthusiasm  that 
inspired  him  in  astronomy  ;  and  who,  having  defended  so 
bravely  the  stars  of  the  old  flag,  has  gone  to  be  himself  a  star, 
shining  with  immortality. 


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Harvard,  the  mother  of  ns  all,  inquired,  Where  are  my 
sons  ?  And  the  first  man  who  raised  a  regiment  in  Massachu¬ 
setts  answered  ; — himself  a  son  of  Harvard,  who  at  the  open¬ 
ing  of  the  war,  hastened  to  the  defense  of  the  .Capital.  And 
last  Friday,  at  her  commemorative  service,  she  presented  five 
hundred  and  twenty-eight  as  her  roll  of  honor,  of  whom  nine¬ 
ty-three  are  among  the  illustrious  dead ! 

The  first  horn  of  Yale  College,  in  what  was  once  the  wilder¬ 
ness  of  Illinois,  could  not  graduate  her  sons  one  year  ago,  be¬ 
cause  every  man  of  them  had  gone  to  the  war, — as  her  Presi¬ 
dent,  near  me,  will  testify.  (Cheers.)  Oberlin,  Knox,  Wil¬ 
liams,  Amherst,  Bowdoin,  sent  forth  their  most  gifted  sons. 
Yale  brings  up  to-day  her  full  seven  hundred  !  This  patriotic 
zeal  of  the  men  of  training  and  culture,  was  a  phenomenon  as 
wonderful  as  was  that  first  uprising  of  the  masses  !  It  came 
when  there  was  need  of  such  a  hack  ground  of  patience  and 
endurance  as  could  come  only  from  ideas.  These  men  of  ideas 
carried  into  the  army  habits  of  discipline,  thought,  culture  ; 
personal  influences,  refining  and  elevating ;  ideas  of  order, 
government,  law,  and  liberty. 

They  transformed  the  army,  Mr.  President,  into  a  vast  deba¬ 
ting  society,  to  which  all  questions  of  law  and  order  were  now 
adjourned  ; — into  a  high  court  of  appeal,  such  as  you,  Sir,  never 
confronted,  where  the  grandest  questions  of  nationality  were 
adjusted  by  men  who  had  been  taught  in  our  institutions  of 
learning  to  think  for  themselves  ;  and  the  great  truths  of  jus¬ 
tice  and  freedom,  so  penetrated  the  masses  also,  that  they  felt 
that  these  were  thenceforth  the  very  substance  of  the  war. 

I  am  not  to  speak  of  the  dead,  as  such  ;  hut  you  will  suffer 
me  to  recall  two  or  three  names.  There  was  our  own  Win- 
throp,  whose  modest  worth  and  accomplished  genius  was  hid¬ 
den  from  the  world,  till  it  flashed,  like  the  sunlight  of  conse¬ 
cration,  from  his  young  and  manly  grave.  There  was  Whee¬ 
ler,  of  whose  high  promise  as  a  scholar  all  who  knew  him  can 
testify.  There  was  Schneider, — horn  in  a  foreign  land,  and 
consecrated,  in  his  father's  thought,  and  his  own,  to  the  mis¬ 
sionary  work  abroad,  but  when  this  crisis  came,  and  a  war  was 
begun  which  threatened  to  overthrow  the  civilization  and 


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Christianity  of  this  land,  he  volunteered  his  services  for  the 
army,  and  died  for  our  cause. 

Shall  I  refer  also  to  Carrington,  of  whom  I  might  almost 
speak  as  of  a  son  by  adoption,  remembering  how  near  to  me 
he  stood  by  association,  and  how  one  bearing  my  name  was  by 
him  when  he  fell  on  the  bloody  field,  and  had  the  melancholy 
office  of  caring  for  his  remains.  Had  he  lived,  he  would  have 
risen,  in  due  time,  to  fill  the  place  in  your  profession,  Sir,  now 
filled  by  the  man  whom  Yale  and  New  York  alike  delight  to 
honor. 

There  is  not  time  even  to  mention  the  names  of  the  many 
whom  Yale  has  sent  to  represent  her  in  this  war  of  ideas.  Her 
scholars  have  been  true  to  their  Alma  Mater , — true  to  her  his¬ 
tory,  and  to  the  voices  of  the  past. 

Mr.  Choate  once  said,  that  Webster  had  never  made  such  a 
speech  as  he  was  capable  of  making  ;  that  if  he  had  lived  in 
the  time  of  the  Revolution,  his  whole  mind  would  have  been 
brought  out ;  that  there  had  been,  in  his  life,  no  incidents  to 
stir  his  majestic  soul  to  its  depths.  How  would  it  have  been 
if  Webster  had  felt  this  storm  of  war  !  Who  of  us  has  not 
been  conscious  of  ideas  and  emotions  awakened  by  this  war, 
which  he  had  never  before  known  ?  Those  vague  ideas  of  lib¬ 
erty,  of  right,  of  government,  which  we  had  derived  from  text¬ 
books  and  the  literature  of  the  past ;  how,  by  the  teachings  of 
this  war,  have  they  been  interpreted  and  intensified,  till  they 
are  incorporated  with  the  very  texture  of  our  souls,  and  can 
never  lose  their  meaning  or  power  !  Is  there  a  man  of  us 
who  is  not  thankful  for  this  severe  and  terrific  discipline  ?  For 
one,  I  would  not  be  without  the  thoughts,  feelings,  experien¬ 
ces,  this  war  has  given  me,  through  all  its  conflicts,  struggles, 
sacrifices,  darkness,  and,  at  last,  its  eflulgent,  glorious  light, — 
I  would  not  be  without  these,  for  all  I  had  before  acquired  and 
'  treasured  in  this  honored  institution.  Let  us  profit  now  by 
the  teaching  God  has  given  us. 

Men  of  education  :  there  is  yet  high,  stern  work  before  us, — 
a  work  which  the  path  of  war  has  marked  out  distinctly  for 
us  to  do,  in  the  reestablishing  of  social  order  and  civil  liberty. 
Let  us  be  true  to  that,  and  act  well  our  part  as  scholars,  gov- 


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erned  and  guided  by  the  true  principles  of  justice,  of  liberty, 
and  of  righteousness.  There  is  power  in  the  educated  mind  of 
this  nation  to  lift  up  the  masses,  to  gird  up  the  government, 
and  to  establish  our  free  institutions,  that  they  shall  never 
again  be  shaken,  until  the  last  convulsion  that  shakes  the  solid 
globe. 

The  President  : — We  come  now  to  honor  the  living  soldiers 
of  the  war,  who  have  entered  the  public  service  as  one  of  the 
results  of  the  instructions  they  have  received.  We  are  to  hear 
from  them  in  considerable  numbers,  in  response  to  a  sentiment 
which  I  will  give.  The  whole  day  is  theirs.  We  now  propose 
to  honor  those  living  sons  of  Yale  who  have  served  their  country 
in  war,  and  who  have  lived  on  to  serve  her  in  peace  :  I  give  you — 
The  living  sons  of  Yale  who  have  served  in  and  lived  through 
the  War. 

I  have  the  honor  of  calling  upon  Gen.  Ullmann,  of  the  Class 
of  ’29. 

Gen.  Ullmann  : — 

I  came  here  to-day,  Sir,  trusting  that  on  so  flattering  an  oc¬ 
casion,  all  speech-making  would  be  left  to  the  learned  gradu¬ 
ates  and  civilians  surrounding  this  board.  You  must  be  aware 
of  the  embarrassment  in  attempting  to  address  such  an  assem¬ 
bly  as  this,  which  must  be  felt  by  one  who  has  passed  the  last 
four  years  in  tents,  or  in  sleeping  on  the  ground,  with  only  the 
shelter  of  the  broad  canopy  of  the  heavens. 

I  should  be  derelict,  however,  to  the  position  I  have  taken  in 
the  war,  did  I  not  avail  myself  of  the  opportunity,  before  this 
august  body,  of  giving  my  testimony  to  the  character  of  the 
American  soldier.  Sir,  I  may  be  permitted  to  say,  that  under 
the  trying  circumstances,  and  in  all  the  fearful  scenes  of  the 
recent  war,  the  army  of  the  United  States  never — never  once 
despaired  of  the  republic.  (Loud  cheers.)  No  matter  what 
clouds  and  darkness  covered  the  horizon  ;  no  matter  what  ex¬ 
ulting  shouts  were  rending  the  air  from  traitors,  North  and 
South,  the  army  of  the  United  States  stood  firm  as  the  ever¬ 
lasting  hills,  trusting  only  to  the  God  of  battles.  (Cheers.) 
Sir,  they  never  failed  to  see  the  glorious  rays  of  success  gleam- 


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ino;  through  and  through  the  dark  clouds,  and  illuminating  the 
heavens  beyond.  You  do  right  then, — we  are  right  in  claiming, 
the  army  of  the  United  States  is  justly  entitled  to  all  the  hon¬ 
ors  you  can  bestow  qpon  them,  for  their  unfaltering  courage, 
and  their  undying  patriotism. 

Sir,  the  multiplicity,  the  magnitude  of  the  topics  which  come 
rushing  in  upon  the  mind,  when  one  contemplates  this  war,  is 
so  great,  that  it  stands  awe-stricken  ;  it  is  scarcely  capable  of 
grasping  them,  or  finding  language  to  express  its  ideas. 

There  have  been,  however,  a  few  lessons  that  the  American 
people  should  learn  by  this  war,  one  or  two  of  which  I  will 
take  the  liberty  of  mentioning.  One  of  the  minor  ones  is,  that, 
on  the  whole,  one  Southerner  is  not  quite  equal  to  three  North¬ 
ern  men.  (Laughter.)  It  is  very  difficult,  now,  to  imagine 
on  what  this  superiority  was  based.  In  going  through  the 
South,  it  appeared  to  me  it  was  because  the  coat  of  arms  of  the 
chivalry  was,  or  should  have  been,  a  bowie-knife,  and  cow-hide 
rampant,  quartered  by  a  whiskey  jug,  with  a  pack  of  cards  and 
a  pack  of  blood-hounds.  (Laughter.)  I  apprehend  that  claim 
of  superiority  is  pretty  well  exploded. 

Another  lesson  learned  by  this  war  is,  that  we  well  know 
how  to  estimate  correctly  the  philanthropy  of  Great  Britain. 
(Applause.)  While  we  recognize  and  are  profoundly  grateful 
for  the  friendship  of  her  real  noblemen, — her  Brights,  her 
Smiths,  her  Cobdens,  her  Stuart  Mills,  and  their  glorious 
compatriots,  wTe  now  know  how  to  appreciate  the  friendly  sym¬ 
pathy  of  her  worthy  premier,  of  her  Lord  Broughams,  and  of 
her  great  governing  classes  generally.  (Cheers.)  I  am  rejoiced 
that  we  are  in  a  situation  permanently  to  compel  a  respect  for 
that  trans-Atlantic  power  which  they  in  their  heart  of  hearts 
most  thoroughly  fear. 

Another  lesson  we  have  learned  is,  to  understand  the  charac¬ 
ter  of  that  cunning  man  who  rules  the  people  on  the  other  side 
of  the  British  channel.  Shrewd  as  he  is,  had  it  not  been  that 
he  expected  that  the  rebels  would  permanently  dismember  this 
land,  he  never  would  have  dared  to  insult  the  United  States 
by  setting  at  naught  the  Monroe  doctrine,  and  attempting  to 
impose  a  mock  imperial  throne  upon  a  people  who  dwell  upon 

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the  borders  of  our  republic,  and  to  place  upon  it  a  scion  of  the 
despotic  house  of  Austria.  If  there  be  one  question  of  foreign 
policy  which  the  whole  people  of  the  United  States  are  unan¬ 
imously  and  absolutely  determined  upon  above  all  others,  it  is 
the  Monroe  doctrine.  (Cheers.)  And  an  obvious,  direct  co¬ 
rollary  from  that  proposition  is,  Maximilian  must  go  out  of 
Mexico,  and  that  soon. 

Many  questions  have  been  settled  by  this  war.  I  shall  not 
venture,  within  the  less  than  ten  minutes  allowed  me,  to  men¬ 
tion  more  than  one, — and  that  is,  that  an  aristocracy  has  been 
crushed,  which  aimed  to  govern  and  control  democratic  Amer¬ 
ica,  and  that  with  it  has  also  been  crushed  that  pestilent  her¬ 
esy,  the  paramount  allegiance  to  the  States,  which  has  hereto¬ 
fore  prevented  this  American  people  from  becoming  really  and 
truly  one  nation.  The  wager  of  battle,  and  the  blood  of  thou¬ 
sands  of  our  fathers,  brothers,  and  sons,  have  settled  this  ques¬ 
tion  forever  ;  and  the  American  people  now  stand  before  the 
world  a  nation,  having  unity,  vitality  and  power,  equal  to  any 
other  nation  of  the  civilized  world,  and,  as  such,  destined  here¬ 
after  to  cope  with  any  others,  either  in  the  arts  of  peace  or  in 
the  arts  of  war.  (Applause.) 

The  President  : — 

I  ask  your  attention  to  Gen.  Parsons,  of  the  Class  of  1840. 
Gen.  Parsons  : — 

It  is  hardly  fair,  as  this  call  is  the  first  warning  I  have  had, 
that  I  should  be  called  upon  to  say  even  a  word  ;  and  while, 
Gentlemen,  I  profoundly  feel  and  acknowledge  my  obligations 
to  you,  as  one  of  those  whom  you  have  gathered  together  to¬ 
day,  who  have  been  employed  recently  in  the  military  service 
of  the  country,  and  while  I  would  profoundly  return  my  ac¬ 
knowledgments,  I  must  say  that  I  feel  that  I  hardly  deserve  it. 
I  feel  that  instead  of  being  a  duty,  for  performing  which  we 
were  thus  to  be  repaid,  it  has  been  a  high  and  noble  privilege 
to  stand  up  in  the  defense  of  our  country.  It  is  to  those  who 
could  not  go — whose  years  and  surrounding  circumstances 
would  not  permit  them  to  rush  forth  to  the  defense  of  their 
country  and  to  the  support  of  the  government, — it  is  these  who 


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are  entitled  to  our  sympathies.  It  was  our  good  fortune,  that 
we  were  were  permitted  and  able  to  go. 

For  one,  when  the  storm  was  rising,  I  felt  that  if  this  gov¬ 
ernment  was  lost,  though  we  saved  everything  else,  we  were 
poor  indeed  ;  whereas,  if  we  could  hut  save  the  republic, 
though  we  lost  everything  else,  we  and  our  children  after  us 
would  he  blessed  with  priceless  riches.  It  was  this  that 
prompted  me,  in  common  with  millions  of  others,  (for  we  count 
almost  by  millions,)  to  tender  my  services,  asking  not  for  place, 
and  knowing  nothing  of  the  military  art.  I  stated,  distinctly, 
that  I  had  never  known  anything  of  it ;  that  I  had  not  been 
educated  a  soldier  :  Where,  said  I,  you  say  I  may  he  useful, 
there  I  will  go.  The  officer  to  whom  I  applied  said,  I  will 
give  you  a  position.  Though  the  position  assigned  me  was 
not  one  of  my  choice  ;  though  I  wished  another  ;  yet  when 
appeal  was  made  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  he  said — You  are 
not  right  ;  your  superior  officer  knows  best. 

In  this  I  have  not  been  alone.  It  has  not  been,  as  in  polit¬ 
ical  life,  a  rush  after  the  best  places.  There  has  been  a  wil¬ 
lingness,  a  patriotic,  ^elf-sacrificing  willingness  to  be  assigned 
to  the  places  where  each  could  be  the  most  useful.  I  regret 
there  is  not  some  one  here  from  beyond  the  “Father  of  Wa¬ 
ters/'  who  could  tell  you  in  better  language  than  I  can,  the 
story  of  the  West ;  but,  coming  as  I  do,  from  St.  Louis,  and 
from  a  State  that  has  been  almost  torn  in  pieces  by  the  demon 
of  slavery,  I  now  tender  to  you  for  the  first  time  on  such  an 
occasion  as  this,  FREE  MISSOURI  !  (This  sentiment  was 
received  with  a  storm  of  applause  ;  and  the  audience,  rising, 
gave  three  cheers  for  free  Missouri.) 

Free  Missouri,  the  first  born  of  freedom,  is  forever  redeemed 
from  the  reproach  and  sin  of  slavery.  Gentlemen,  when  I  look 
around  me  at  these  quiet  retreats  which  I  left  twenty-five 
years  ago,  when  I  look  over  these  northern  States  and  see  how 
they  are  situated,  while  I  honor  those  illustrious  dead  and  these 
living  heroes  who  have  given  themselves  to  the  cause,  I  cannot 
but  think  that  it  is  impossible  for  you  to  appreciate  as  we  do 
who  were  situated  in  the  center  of  it,  the  great  and  vital  impor- 


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tance  of  the  recent  contest,  the  dangers  which  surrounded  us, 
and  the  glorious  result  at  last  attained. 

Four  years  ago  we  slept  with  pistols  in  our  hands.  Our 
nearest  neighbors,  our  best  friends,  were  changed  to  fiercest 
foes.  In  the  block  where  I  resided,  containing  thirteen  houses, 
only  two  families  were  loyal.  We  were  surrounded  with  dan¬ 
ger  and  with  difficulty.  You  can't  conceive  what  it  has  cost 
us  to  get  rid  of  the  institution  of  slavery  in  Missouri.  You 
know  not  how  many  lives  it  has  cost.  Every  village  and  every 

hamlet  has  been  desolated.  Missouri  knows  the  cost  of  civil 
*  • 

war.  One  half  part  of  the  people  of  each  township  went  away_, 
and  one  half  part  of  all  her  wealth  was  utterly  destroyed, — 
was  laid  waste,  from  one  end  to  the  other  of  the  State. 

With  all  this  we  are  infinitely  in  advance  of  what  we  were 
before,  and  we  thank  God  for  the  war.  (Cheers.)  Without  it 
we  should  have  had  the  institution  for  half  a  century.  It  has 
relieved  us  constitutionally.  For  one  I  saw  no  way  we  could 
free  ourselves  constitutionally.  For  one  I  would  have  sub¬ 
mitted  then  and  now,  rather  than  that  the  Constitution  in  its 
letter  or  spirit  should  be  violated.  It  is  our  sheet-anchor. 
But  I  am  detaining  you.  I  give  you, — Free  Missouri,  now 
disenthralled. 

“  Truth  crushed  to  earth  shall  rise  again, 

The  eternal  years  of  God  are  hers, 

But  Slavery ,  wounded,  writhes  in  pain, 

And  dies  amid  her  worshippers.” 

In  conclusion  I  have  a  single  word  more.  On  leaving  Wash¬ 
ington  by  permission  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  attend  this 
meeting,  I  said,  Mr.  Secretary,  will  you  not  go  P  He  said,  I 
have  no  time  to  go  or  to  write  a  letter.  I  replied,  I  am  going, 
with  your  permission :  may  I  tell  them  how  many  men  you 
have  sent  away — that  you  have  sent  off  half  a  million  of  men  ? 
It  is  one  of  his  peculiarities  never  to  explain  himself.  When 
he  does  a  thing  he  lets  it  go  and  lets  the  Future  take  care  of  it. 
Instead  of  half  a  million  said  he,  you  may  say  that  there  have 
already  been  mustered  out  of  the  service,  or  will  be  in  a  day  or 
two,  782,642  men — almost  800,000  men  already  sent  to  their 
homes  ;  and  said  he,  I  am  arranging  to  send  about  100,000 


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more  within  a  few  days,  making  900,000  !  I  replied,  I  would 
like  to  know  how  many  you  are  going  to  keep  !  He  said  we 
had  one  million  of  men,  within  two  or  three  thousand. 

One  million  of  soldiers  on  our  rolls  at  the  close  of  this  deso- 
ting  war  !  Let  me  say  to  you  now,  that  if  the  Secretary  of 
War  was  the  greatest  organizer  of  war  since  the  time  of 
Cromwell,  he  has  shown  within  sixty  days  that  he  is  the 
greatest  disorganizer  of  armies.  If  you  knew  the  labor  in¬ 
volved  in  disbanding  in  sixty  days  800,000  men,  it  would,  give 
you  some  idea  of  the  time  and  strength  the  Secretary  of  War 
devotes  to  his  country,  and  his  opponents  would .  scarce  treat 
him  in  the  manner  they  do. 

(Three  cheers  for  Secretary  Stanton  were  called  for  and 
given  with  great  cordiality.) 

The  President  : —  y 

I  rose  to  propose  the  honor  which  you  have  antici¬ 
pated,  and  to  say,  that  as  there  has  never  been  a  greater 
war,  and  as  there  never  has  been  a  greater  army,  and  as  there 
has  never  been  a  greater  triumph,  so  there  never  has  been  a 
greater  minister  of  war,  or  one  who  deserved  a  larger  share  of 
the  great  triumph.  Please  to  give  your  attention  to  Gen.  Car¬ 
rington,  of  the  Class  of  ’45. 

Gen.  Carrington  : — 

It  was  only  on  Saturday  last,  about  sunset,  that,  eight 
hundred  miles  from  here,  I  was  informed  by  telegraph 
that  I  might  change  my  place  of  getting  orders  to  my  mother 
State — 'Connecticut.  Monday  morning  I  started,  and  I  arrived 
during  the  meeting  of  the  Alumni.  I  did  not  come  because 
this  is  my  twentieth  year  from  the  time  of  graduating  and  I 
was  to  meet  with  my  class.  I  did  not  come  simply  to  rejoice 
with  you.  I  came  looking  upon  this  as  the  most  solemn  period 
and  occasion  of  my  life.  I  looked  upon  the  closing  up  of  this 
war  as  the  commencement  of  an  era  which  may  furnish  a  day- 
mark  for  the  college  of  Yale  as  the  Fourth  of  July  has  marked 
one  for  the  nation.  This  war  has  only  prospered  as  it  has  been 
instrumental  in  accomplishing  the  divine  purposes — destroying 
slavery  and  making  this  a  free,  Christian  republic.  The  war 


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is  a  monument  which  will  mark  the  progress  of  the  race  in  all 
time.  I  clo  not  know  whether  Dr.  Cummings  is  right,  and 
that  1866  is  to  witness  the  great  conflagration  ;  hut  I  do  know 
that  the  word  of  God  is  true,  and  that  a  nation  that  lives  and 
fights  its  battles  in  accordance  with  its  precepts  will  prosper. 

There  is  a  gentleman  sitting  at  this  table  whose  father,  more 
than  fifty  years  ago  was  a  graduate  of  Yale — the  Rev.  Noah 
Pcrter.  Under  his  care,  twenty-five  or  six  years  ago,  I  was  pre¬ 
paring  for  college  in  the  town  of  F armington.  One  evening  some 
gentlemen  held  a  prayer  meeting  in  the  upper  story  of  the  acade¬ 
my.  A  company  of  negroes,  who  had  been  slaves,  and  who  had 
been  captured  by  one  of  our  naval  vessels,  had  been  taken  to  that 
town,  and  as  was  usual,  prayer  was  offered  that  they  might  re¬ 
main  free  and  that  slavery  might  be  abolished, — when  stones 
were  thrown  against  the  building,  and  every  window  was  broken. 
I  think  public  sentiment  has  slightly  changed  since  then. 

I  remember  a  discussion  in  my  Freshman  year  with  a  class¬ 
mate  who  died  in  the  rebel  army.  Several  Sophomores  deter¬ 
mined  to  punish  me  because  I  defended  the  abolitionists.  I  got 
all  the  round  sticks  of  wood  I  could  and  placed  them  on  Dr. 
Kane's  winding  stairway,  so  that  when  they  came  up  at  night 
they  could  go  down  easily.  (Laughter.)  In  the  evening  they 
came  :  they  made  the  first  landing  under  different  circum¬ 
stances  from  those  which  the}r  had  anticipated  ;  and  at  that 
convenient  time  I  poured  out  a  tub  of  water,  and  washed  down 
the  whole  transaction.  (Laughter.)  But  the  world  moves, 
and  an  abolitionist  by  this  time  encounters  no  danger  of  per¬ 
sonal  violence  from  the  bigots  of  slavery. 

I  believe  from  this  very  date  we  open  an  era,  grand  beyond 
all  description  in  human  progress.  Such  a  spectacle  as  this  was 
never  witnessed  in  Europe.  Learning  and  science  there,  we  do 
not  find  devoted  to  the  propagation  of  the  principles  of  uni¬ 
versal  freedom.  For  all  that  America  now  is,  I  say,  Glory  to 
God,  and  for  whatever  share  we  have  had  in  the  great  work  now 
accomplished,  as  Christians,  as  the  Alumni  of  Yale,  and  as  fel¬ 
low-soldiers  of  the  Republic. 


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The  President  : — 

I  am  sure  that  after  this  eloquent  speech  and  after 
learning  of  General  Carrington's  sagacity  in  discovering  and 
his  shrewdness  in  thwarting  the  conspiracy  against  him  in 
College,  the  audience  will  not  he  surprised  to  learn  that  among 
his  services  in  the  war  was  the  discovery  and  frustration  of  the 
Indiana  conspiracy,  by  which  civil  war  was  to  have  been  in¬ 
augurated  and  the  rebel  prisoners  liberated  ;  hut  they  found 
unexpectedly  some  rollers  on  which  they  slid  down  “  easily," 
(Laughter,)  and  some  floods  of  popular  indignation  under  which 
they  were  suffocated  “  easily."  (Laughter  and  cheers.) 

I  now  introduce  to  you  Brigadier-General  John  W.  Noble, 

Chief  of  Cavalry  of  the  Army  of  Arkansas,  of  the  Class  of  '51. 
Gen.  Noble  : — 

Four  years  in  the  saddle  is  not  a  very  good  school  of 
oratory.  It  has  been  my  lot,  I  would  say  to  General 
Parsons,  to  serve  the  government  beyond  the  “  Father  of 
Waters,"  but  it  is  not  in  my  power  to  tell  the  story  of  the  war 
in  the  West.  My  first  experience  was  before  I  entered  the 
service,  in  endeavoring  to  drive  back  the  invaders  from  the  soil 
of  Missouri.  I  am  here  as  one  of  the  men  whom  Secretary 
Stanton  has  not  yet  reached. 

It  has  been  my  fortune  to  see  returning  in  search  of  their 
homes,  the  broken  masses  of  Lee's  and  Johnston's  armies,  and 
it  has  been  often  a  subject  of  meditation  with  me,  as  to  the 
difference  between  their  reception  at  home  and  that  of  the 
brave  boys  in  blue.  They  have  been  engaged  in  a  deadly 
struggle  in  endeavoring  to  perpetrate  the  great  crime  and  out¬ 
rage  of  dismembering  the  republic.  When  I  have  seen  them 
traveling  without  colors,  without  organization,  seeking  to  go 
home  where  no  booming  cannon,  no  merry  bells,  no  martial 
music  is  to  welcome  them  back,  I  have  thought  that  they  were 
receiving  in  some  due  measure  the  punishment  they  deserve. 
They  who  had  risked  their  lives  in  a  bad  cause  were  to  be  re¬ 
ceived  by  ungrateful  men — without  a  welcome  ;  they  passed 
through  cities  without  a  single  word  of  cheer,  and  subsisting  on 
the  way  upon  provisions  given  to  them  by  the  very  government 


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they  endeavored  to  overthrow.  I  wondered  how  different  it 
would  he  when  the  national  army  went  home.  I  endeavored  to 
conceive  the  scene.  But  having  been  home  on  a  leave  of  ab¬ 
sence,  I  have  had  the  opportunity  of  seeing  how  the  hearts  of 
the  people  went  forth  toward  the  men  who  ventured  and  en¬ 
dured  so  much.  When  I  came  to  this  institution  and  found 
the  preparations  that  had  been  made  by  Yale  to  receive  her 
sons,  the  day  has  come  when  another  lesson  has  been  taught  me 
in  addition  to  those  I  had  already  learned,  which  proves  that 
republics  are  not  ungrateful.  That  sentiment — the  ingratitude 
of  republics — shall  exist  not  here.  It  shall  go  back  to  the 
home  from  which  it  came  ;  it  cannot  be  found  in  the  warm 
hearts  of  the  American  people  ;  republics  are  grateful.  I  feel, 
too,  on  this  occasion,  like  sending  my  thanks  in  behalf  of  the 
soldiers  whom  I  represent  to  those  who  by  cultivating  the  arts  of 
peace  at  home  and  freely  supplying  us  from  the  accumulations 
of  years  with  the  sinews  of  war,  have  so  materially  aided  us 
in  our  work  ;  the  paterfamilias  ought  not  to  be  forgotten,  and 
we  give  our  thanks  to  those  who,  at  home,  performed  their 
part  of  the  great  work,  while  the  boys  were  in  the  field.  I 
would  also  render  thanks  in  behalf  of  the  soldiers,  to  the 
women  of  this  country  who  have  been  so  thoroughly  imbued 
with  patriotism,  and  who  have  relieved  and  mitigated  the  suf¬ 
ferings  and  distress  of  the  soldiers  while  away  in  the  field. 
(Loud  and  prolonged  cheers.)  Our  soldiers  know  when  they 
come  home  whether  they  shall  meet  with  public  receptions,  for 
they  have  learned  and  been  cheered  by  the  thought  that  the 
people  of  the  country  are  grateful  to  them  for  the  duties  they 
have  performed. 

The  President  : — 

I  have  one  more  General  to  present  to  you,  and  he  will  allow 
me  to  say  this  of  him — that  he  had  an  honorable  and  glorious 
part  in  an  early  battle,  of  which  the  whole  general  result  was 
neither  honorable  nor  glorious.  I  introduce  to  you  Gen. 
Edward  Harland,  of  the  Class  of  '53,  who  began  his  military 
service  as  Captain,  and  served  at  the  battle  of  Bull  Run,  and, 
on  the  failure  of  his  superior  officers,  brought  off  his  regiment 
in  good  order. 


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Gen.  Harland  rose  amid  warm  applause,  and  in  a  few 
words  excused  himself  from  adding  another  to  the  speeches  of 
the  day. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  William  Adams,  of  New  York,  was  then  called 
upon  to  respond  to  the  sentiment  of  “  The  Memory  of  the 
Dead.”  His  remarks,  which  were  made  with  deep  feeling  as 
well  as  beauty  of  expression,  were  unfortunately  not  so  fully 
reported  as  the  other  addresses  of  the  day,  and  it  has  been 
thought  best  not  to  publish  here  the  brief  outline  which  only 
has  been  preserved. 

The  President  : — 

Allow  me  to  call  to  your  attention  the  memory  of  one  dead, 
who  died  for  the  whole  country,  and  by  the  culminating  act  of 
the  whole  rebellion — the  late  President  of  the  United  States, 
and  Commander-in-Chief  of  its  army  and  of  its  navy.  His 
country,  and  that  army  and  that  navy,  triumphed  over  the 
power  of  the  rebellion,  while  he  fell  a  victim  to  its  last  expiring 
venom.  And  this  company  will  please  arise  and  keep  silent 
while  the  Band  plays  a  dirge. 

The  great  audience,  both  upon  the  floor  and  in  the  encircling 
galleries,  rose  immediately  in  response  to  the  request,  and  for 
some  moments  the  melancholy  music  of  the  dirge  alone  broke 
the  stillness  of  the  Hall. 

When  the  Band  had  finished  the  piece,  the  President  re¬ 
sumed  by  saying  : 

We  have  a  little  matter  of  business,  gentlemen,  which  now 
requires  our  attention.  We  are  to  determine,  by  such  confer¬ 
ences  and  consultations  as  we  may  be  able  to  unite  in,  upon 
some  permanent  form  of  memorial  for  the  honored  dead 
and  the  honorable  living  who  have  served  in  the  war  ;  and 
the  Committee  will  soon  present  to  you  their  views  on  this 
subject ;  but  I  have  great  pleasure  in  calling  first  for  some 
remarks  from  one  who  was  a  soldier  of  the  war,  a  Colonel  in 
the  service,  a  civil  magistrate  in  the  military  occupation  of  the 
city  of  New  Orleans,  and  who,  for  the  second  time,  has  been 
returned  a  Representative  in  Congress — the  Hon.  Henry  C. 
Deming,  of  Hartford. 


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Col.  Eeming  : — 

Mr.  Chairman  : — If  I  was  called  upon  to  raise  a  Kegiment, 
and  should  he  guided  in  the  choice  of  a  recruiting  ground  by 
my  a  priori  deductions,  instead  of  the  facts  and  experience 
which  have  been  developed  by  this  War,  I  should  throw  out 
my  flag  and  beat  my  drum  in  every  other  place,  before  I  ap¬ 
proached  the  quarters  where  the  Alumni  of  Colleges  most  do 
congregate.  The  Scholar  and  the  Soldier  are  not  apt  to  sprout 
from  the  same  root  or  grow  upon  the  same  bush.  The  Scholar 
is  not  apt  to  mount  the  shoulder-straps,  nor  is  the  Soldier  apt 
to  covet  these  four-cornered  skull  caps  of  the  Oxford  pattern. 
There  is  no  affinity  between  the  training  and  profession  of  the 
one,  and  the  training  and  profession  of  the  other,  and  no  such 
sympathy  or  agreement  between  the  two,  as  to  induce  any 
shrewd  recruiting  officer  to  expect  that  recruits  would  be 
drawn  from  the  ranks  of  the  one  to  the  ranks  of  the  other. 
On  the  contrary,  the  pursuits  and  culture  of  the  two  profes¬ 
sions  are  diverse  and  repellent.  The  office  of  the  Scholar  is  to 
control  mankind  by  argument  and  persuasion,  through  the 
reason  and  the  emotions  ;  the  office  of  the  Soldier  is  to  over¬ 
come  mankind  by  the  hrutum  fulmen ,  and  to  break  down  their 
physical  and  moral  resistance,  by  all  the  agencies  and  terrors 
of  violence  and  destruction.  And  yet,  we  are  here  to-day,  Mr. 
Chairman,  to  commemorate  the  imposing  fact,  that  more  than 
five  hundred  of  the  children  of  Yale,  abjuring  all  their  antece¬ 
dents,  reversing  all  the  conditions  and  hopes  and  currents  of 
their  life,  have,  with  unblanched  cheeks,  and  untrembling 
hearts,  followed  the  Eagles  of  the  imperiled  Kepublic,  master¬ 
ing  the  drill  with  the  ease  which  they  acquired  in  mastering 
the  Grammar  and  the  Oar,  bearing  privation  and  hardship 
with  more  stamina  and  less  grumbling  than  their  messmate, 
Hodge  who  was  a  farmer,  and  Kelly  who  was  a  hod-carrier  ; 
waking  the  echoes  of  the  forest  and  the  mountain,  with  u  Upi 
dee”  and  u  Gaudeamus  ,''  inspiriting  their  own  enthusiasm  on 
the  march  and  the  bivouac,  by  a  couplet  of  old  Homer's,  or  a 
triumphant  ode  of  Pindar's,  or  a  martial  strain  of  Tacitus,  and 
beckoned  on  to  deeds  of  daring  and  glory  by  airy  leaders,  whom 


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Hodge  and  Kelly  cannot  see,  the  whole  troop  of  classic  heroes 
from  Agamemnon  to  Germanicus. 

I  knew  one  student  martyr,  a  graduate  of  a  Western  Col¬ 
lege,  a  youth  of  brilliant  promise,  of  unblemished  life,  and  of 
scholarly  tastes  and  accomplishments,  who  led  a  forlorn  hope 
against  one  of  the  rebel  bulwarks  which  guarded  the  gates  of 
Georgia,  cheering  up  his  own  manliness  on  his  march  to  cer¬ 
tain  death,  by  reciting  aloud  a  strain  from  one  of  Macaulay's 
lays,  and  just  as  the  fatal  Minie  pierced  his  noble  and  chival¬ 
rous  heart,  was  heard  exclaiming — 

Then  outspake  brave  Horatius, 

The  Captain  of  the  gate  : 

11  To  every  man  upon  this  earth 
Death  cometh  soon  or  late, 

And  how  can  man  die  better 
Than  facing  fearful  odds, 

For  the  ashes  of  his  fathers 
And  the  temples  of  his  gods, 

And  for  the  tender  mother 
Who  dandled  him  to  rest, 

And  for  the  wife  who  nurses 
His  baby  at  her  breast  ?” 

It  is  certainly  worth  while  to  spend  a  minute  in  searching 
for  the  motive,  or  interior  force,  which  from  the  still  air  of  de¬ 
lightful  studies,  from  pulpit,  bar,  bench,  hall  of  legislation 
and  other  cloistered  and  sequestered  stations  of  duty  and 
interest,  could  drive  forth  this  full  battalion  of  educated  and 
thoughtful  men,  into  the  turmoil  of  camp  life,  into  the  roaring 
and  perilous  front  of  battle. 

There  was  a  word  in  the  dictionary,  when  I  was  in  College, 
expressing  one  of  the  cardinal  virtues  of  the  human  soul,  of 
which  we  read  much  in  Plutarch  and  Livy,  which  we  were  told 
was  lively  and  demonstrative  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  which 
we  heard  sometimes  alluded  to  in  F ourth  of  J uly  orations,  for 
the  purpose  of  rounding  a  period  or  winging  a  metaphor,  hut 
which  we  were  inclined  to  treat  with  contempt  and  disdain  ; 
sceptical  as  to  its  existence,  regarding  its  pretensions  to  super¬ 
lative  love  of  country,  as  false  and  hypocritical,  classifying  it 
with  the  mock  Republicanism  of  Horace  Walpole,  with  the 


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affected  misanthropy  of  Byron  ;  regarding  it  as  too  superfine 
and  transcendental  for  common  use,  or  as  obsolete,  like  the 
knight-errantry  of  Don  Quixote.  And  was  there  anything 
strange  in  all  this  ?  It  was  a  time  of  profound  Peace  ;  no 
danger  at  home  or  abroad  threatened  the  sole  object  of  Pat¬ 
riotism's  adoratiofi,  and,  in  those  days  it  was  fresh  in  every 
scholar's  mind,  that  Dr.  Johnson,  in  an  assemblage  of  the 
most  refined  and  intellectual  Englishmen  of  his  time, — Burke 
and  Gibbon  and  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  and  Goldsmith  and  Dr. 
Percy  being  present,  and  Charles  Fox  himself  in  the  chair — 
that  Dr.  Johnson,  the  stoutest  thinker  and  sturdiest  moralist 
of  his  age,  had  ventured  to  define  Patriotism  as  u  the  last 
refuge  of  a  scoundrel."  In  short,  we  regarded  Patriotism  as  the 
demagogue's  stock  in  trade,  and  had  so  little  faith  in  it,  that 
we  had  pretty  well  made  up  our  minds,  that  however  worthy 
it  might  be  of  the  ignobile  vulgus ,  it  was  beneath  the  sub¬ 
limated  notice  of  us,  elect  and  laureled  scholars  of  the  land, 
and  that  if  we  cherished  it  at  all,  it  should  be  cherished  only 
for  ad  captandum  and  Buncombe  purposes.  u  Dulce  et  deco¬ 
rum  est pro  patria  mori ,"  we  believed  in,  just  as  Lucian  be¬ 
lieved  in  Zeus  and  Poseidon  ;  just  as  Bishop  Colenso  believed 
in  the  Pentateuch,  or  a  pardoned  slave  holder  in  the  Emancipa¬ 
tion  Proclamation. 

Hot  six  months  before  the  day  when,  for  his  country's  sake, 
Theodore  Wixthrop  leaped  into  the  jaws  of  death,  as  into  the 
arms  of  blooming  joy,  I  heard  a  clergyman  spend  a  third  of 
his  sermon  in  proving  that  Patriotism  was  no  sham,  but  a  real, 
genuine  thing. 

But  we  live  to  learn  ;  the  fiery  trial  through  which  the  na¬ 
tion  has  just  passed  has  dissipated  many  old  errors,  and  incul¬ 
cated  many  new  and  important  lessons,  and,  among  other 
things,  has  demonstrated  that  Patriotism  is  not  an  unreal,  un¬ 
substantial,  mythical,  spurious  sentiment,  but  a  vital,  ever  liv¬ 
ing,  ineradicable  and  irresistible  force  of  the  soul,  and  that 
even  our  thrift,  and  mammonism,  and  materialism,  and  our 
insatiate  and  repugnant  thirst  for  individual  advancement,  has 
not  entirely  extinguished  disinterested  and  self-sacrificing  love 
of  country  in  the  American  bosom.  Though  silent  here,  it  has 


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not  been  dumb,  though  passive  not  paralyzed,  though  dormant 
not  dead.  In  a  revolutionary  convulsion,  its  influence  has 
been  sufficiently  potent  upon  our  College  household,  to 
transmute  men  of  contemplation  into  men  of  action,  men  of 
thought  into  men  of  fire,  men  of  peace  into  men  of  war,  or  in 
two  words,  Scholars  into  Soldiers,  and  it  has  been  suffi¬ 
ciently  potent,  too,  to  induce  scores  of  them  to  lie  down  in 
death  for  their  country  as  they  would  lie  down  to  dream. 

Yes  !  Yes,  oh  sceptic  and  scoffer  !  making  all  the  allowances 
which  you  are  ready  to  claim  for  the  base,  the  mean,  the  sor¬ 
did  and  the  selfish  motives  which  enter  into  all  our  actions, 
you  must  still  recognize,  in  the  alacrity  with  which  the  children 
of  Old  Yale  have  rushed  to  the  embrace  of  Death,  the  pristine 
power,  the  old,  the  dear,  the  familiar  inspiration  of  that  imme¬ 
morial  Spartan,  Theban,  Athenian,  Roman,  Teutonic  devo¬ 
tion  to  Fatherland,  which,  more  signally  than  any  other  virtue 
through  the  vast  sweep  of  history,  has  vindicated,  aye,  and 
still  vindicates,  the  Divine  parentage,  and  the  genuine  nobility 
of  Man.  “  Oh,  it  was  the  magnitude  of  the  crisis,”  I  hear  some 
one  say  ;  u  it  was  the  moral  and  political  interests  involved  ;  it 
was  the  weighty  questions  put  in  issue  by  the  War,  whether 
State  Sovereignty  should  predominate  over  the  National  Gov¬ 
ernment,  whether  human  bondage  should  continue  to  satirize 
our  pretensions  to  religion  and  civilization,  whether  the  politi¬ 
cal  equality  of  every  human  being  should  continue  to  be  abro¬ 
gated  by  the  absurd  tyrannies  of  color  and  caste, — it  was  the 
weight  of  these  questions  which  contributed  vastly  to  the  self¬ 
dedication  of  so  many  sons  of  Yale  to  the  military  service  of 
the  Republic.”  All  this  is  doubtless  in  a  measure  true,  for  all 
these  weighty  issues  appeal  with  peculiar  emphasis  to  the  pat¬ 
riotism  of  scholars  ;  and  yet  what  after  all  are  these  momen¬ 
tous  interests,  of  which  you  speak,  but  part  and  parcel  of  that 
country  which  it  is  the  peculiar  and  elect  function  of  patriotism 
to  shelter  and  embrace  as  an  indivisible  whole.  The  national 
aegis  which  shields  you,  the  laws  which  protect  and  enrich  you, 
the  customs  which  characterize  the  land,  are  these  less  your 
country  than  the  cities  and  towns  which  you  inhabit,  the 
houses  in  which  you  dwell,  the  acres  which  you  till,  the  insen- 


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sate  earth  beneath  your  feet,  the  changeful  skies  above  you  ? 
No  !  no  !  government,  laws,  institutions,  customs,  the  College 
which  reared  you,  the  holy  altars  of  your  communions  and 
worship,  old  traditions,  home  life,  social  ties,  domestic  virtues, 
earth,  air  and  water,  are  all  your  country.  (Applause.) 

To  this  devoted  hand  who  have  thus  gone  forth  to  toil  and 
bleed  that  we  might  rest  and  enjoy — to  those  who  have  con¬ 
quered  liberty  for  a  class  and  national  existence  for  a  people — 
to  these  Scholar-Soldiers  who  have  contributed  so  much  to  the 
honor  and  renown  of  our  University  and  to  the  standing  and 
position  of  the  commonwealth  of  letters,  shall  we  not  be  grate¬ 
ful  ?  Oh  yes,  certainly  grateful  !  Your  processions,  ovations, 
banquets  ;  these  will  do  for  the  living  ;  but  what  for  those  who 
can  no  longer  see  and  hear  and  feel  !  What  for  the  dead  ! 
What  for  those  youthful  martyrs  filled  to  overflowing  with 
vigorous  and  sanguine  life,  with  affections,  aspirations,  hopes, 
yearnings,  infinite  capacities,  heaven-soaring  thoughts  and 
fancies,  instantly  sent 

“  To  lie  in  cold  obstruction  and  to  rot, 

This  sensible,  warm  motion  to  become 
A  kneaded  clod — ” 

that  you  might  live  and  thrive  and  exult  and  glorify  ;  what,  0, 
what  for  these  ?  In  behalf  of  these  departed  comrades,  how 
impotent,  how  insignificant  are  all  the  resources  of  affection  ! 
Next  to  that  immortality  which  conveys  to  us  a  conscious  and 
glorified  personal  existence  in  the  assembly  of  the  just  made 
perfect,  no  boon  is  more  coveted  by  the  thoughtful  spirit  than 
the  immortality  which  insures  us  an  everlasting  existence  in 
the  memory  of  mankind.  If  we  could  summon  to  this  pre¬ 
sence  some  martyred  alumnus  we  have  just  laid  in  an  honored 
grave,  and  with  tears  in  our  eyes  and  hearts  upon  our  lips, 
expect  him  to  answer  the  question — What,  0,  faithful  soldier, 
can  we  do  for  thee  P  how  could  he  respond  to  our  appeal  but 
by  murmuring — “Kemember  me.”  What  was  the  parting 
injunction  of  divine  wisdom  and  forecast  incarnated  in  Mary’s 
Son,  but,  “  This  do  in  remembrance  of  me.”  And  even  since 
He  has  ascended  to  the  bosom  of  His  Father,  and  been  crowned 
with  the  unalloyed  fruition  of  that  blessed  and  glorious  realm, 


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He  has  constantly  ratified  by  His  benediction  the  memorial  of 
Himself  which  He  instituted  upon  earth,  thus  suggesting  to  us 
the  comforting  assurance,  that  a  permanent  place  in  the  mem¬ 
ory  of  mortals  may  not  he  unacceptable  to  that  expanded 
intelligence  which  our  immortal  martyrs  may  have  obtained  in 
heaven. 

We  are  thus,  my  friends,  drawn  as  it  were  to  the  practical 
conclusion,  that  the  only  way  in  which  we  can  vindicate  our 
gratitude  to  the  dead,  is  by  ordaining  and  establishing  an  en¬ 
during  memorial,  which  shall  be  an  eternal  and  unceasing 
proclamation  to  mankind  of  their  names  and  achievements. 
It  is  not  for  me  to  draw,  or  describe  in  detail,  what  such  a 
memorial  should  he,  but  I  may  he  permitted  to  mention  some 
general  conditions,  qualities  and  characteristics,  which  we  should 
seek  to  attain. 

Let  us  for  once,  at  least,  in  the  long  history  of  our  frugal 
Alma  Mater ,  he  not  over  scrupulous  about  the  expense. 
There  is  certainly  one  thing  in  life  that  cannot  he  estimated 
by  money,  and  that  is  life  itself.  When  we  can  give  to  these 
dead  benefactors  nothing  hut  remembrance,  let  us  give  them 
that  in  magnificent  setting.  The  gratitude  must  he  hollow 
and  spurious  as  the  love  of  a  fribble  or  the  oath  of  a  dicer, 
which  can  consent  to  weigh  out  dollars  against  blood,  or  pro¬ 
test  any  draft  drawn  upon  it  by  its  martyred  redeemers.  If 
there  is  not  soul  enough  left  in  us  to  give  liberally  to  repay 
such  an  obligation,  let  us  forthwith  hand  over  our  carcasses  to 
the  medical  college  as  only  fit  for  anatomical  purposes. 

The  memorial  should  be  accessible  ;  so  that  student,  citizen, 
visitor,  stranger,  can  he  constantly  reached  by  its  appeal — 
“  Remember/'  It  should  he  secluded  in  no  gallery  under  watch 
and  ward  of  a  doorkeeper,  in  no  hall  under  the  keys  of  a  jani¬ 
tor,  and  open  to  the  public  only  on  grand  occasions  ;  and  I 
should  as  soon  think  of  burying  my  only  child  in  one  of  those 
groves  where  our  Milesian  friends  hold  their  picnics  and  their 
Honneybrook  fairs,  as  of  erecting  a  memorial  to  our  martyrs  in 
any  place  devoted  to  the  gala  days  and  festivities  of  the  Col¬ 
lege.  The  loud  laugh,  the  joke,  the  song,  would  grate  horribly 
on  the  sensibilities  which  should  be  awakened  in  the  imme- 


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diate  presence  of  this  tribute  of  sorrow,  piety,  and  love  to  the 
mourned  and  lost.  Could  my  wishes  prevail,  the  memorial 
should  he  reared  in  some  solemn  sanctuary,  where,  through  the 
tinged  window,  the  many  hued  light  of  heaven  may  fall  soft 
and  gently  upon  it,  hut  a  sanctuary  always  open  to  every  wor¬ 
shipper  susceptible  of  gratitude  and  capable  of  memory  ; 
connected,  perhaps,  by  some  Arcade  or  Corridor  with  the  habi¬ 
tual  place  of  worship,  within  hearing  certainly  of  the  pealing 
organ,  the  exultant  Laudamus ,  the  wailing  Miserere , — within 
sight  of  the  golden  censer,  tilled  with  prayer  and  praise,  pure 
and  uncontaminated,  which  is  daily  here  presented  to  our 
Almighty  Deliverer,  that  its  appeals  may  be  addressed  to  our 
minds  when  they  are  subdued  by  penitence,  humbled  by  the 
contemplation  of  infinite  power  and  justice  and  mercy,  soft¬ 
ened  by  the  immediate  presence  of  the  agonies  of  Gethsemane 
and  that  sublimest  of  all  sacrifices  on  Calvary,  chastened  by 
reflection  upon  our  own  transit,  sudden  and  awful  as  theirs,  it 
may  be, — inevitable  it  surely  is,  to 

“  The  undiscovered  country,  from  whose  bourne 
No  traveler  returns.” 

Such  are  the  associations  I  would  solicit,  such  is  the  genius 
loci  I  would  covet  for  a  memorial  to  these  martyred  Alumni. 

It  should  be  capable  of  expansion  ;  that  it  may  grow  as  our 
means  grow,  increase  as  our  fervors  increase,  and  as  the  patri¬ 
otism,  pride  and  piety  of  successive  Classes  shall  develop 
itself  and  solicit  expression.  Room  should  be  left  for  future 
heroes  in  a  College  Pantheon,  so  that  at  some  distant  day, 
past,  present  and  future  heroism  may  all  be  allied  and  united 
in  one  grand  apotheosis. 

It  should  be  clear  and  perspicuous ;  that  the  most  Boeotian 
intellect,  which  shall  hereafter  succeed  in  securing  a  matricu¬ 
lation  here,  may  fully  comprehend  at  least  one  important  les¬ 
son  of  his  College  course,  love  and  reverence  to  those  prede¬ 
cessors  who  have  struggled  and  died,  that  he  may  stagnate 
and  blunder  in  ease  and  security.  It  should  be  suggestive ,  that 
every  impressible  mind  may  incorporate  itself  with  its  purpose 
and  mission  ;  artistic ,  that  it  may  appeal  to  the  imagination 
and  fancy  as  well  as  to  reason  and  memory  ;  enduring ,  that 


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its  injunction  to  “remember,”  may  be  served  upon  every  gen¬ 
eration  of  students  “  till  the  last  syllable  of  recorded  time.” 

Within  the  precincts  of  this  ancient  University,  which  has 
already  done  so  much  for  the  American  mind,  and  which 
through  an  unmeasured  Future  will  gather  to  its  fold  the 
young,  the  aspiring,  the  intelligent  of  a  regenerated  land, 
under  the  guardianship  of  its  piety,  wrought  with  all  the 
witchery  and  embellishments  of  its  highest  art,  visible  to  every 
eye,  intelligible  to  every  understanding,  suggestive  to  every 
imagination,  let  this  proud  testimonial  rise  ;  and  let  it  stand  a 
perpetual  monument  of  the  heroism  and  devotion  of  its  mar¬ 
tyred  Alumni,  allying  the  heroes  of  the  Past  with  the  genera¬ 
tions  of  heroes  yet  to  come  ;  let  it  stand,  long  as  the  foundation 
of  the  London  merchant  shall  endure,  long  as  the  blue  waters 
of  the  Sound  shall  wash  these  verdant  shores,  long  as  those 
granite  sentinels  shall  overlook  this  classic  plain  ;  let  it  stand, 
through  all  coming  time,  the  holy  altar,  the  tutelary  shrine 
of  patriotic  ardor  and  enthusiasm,  the  trysting  place  of  repub¬ 
lican  Loyalty  and  Love.  (Loud  applause.) 

The  Committee  upon  the  Permanent  Memorial  for  the  Dead 
were  now  called  upon  by  the  President  for  their  report,  and  it 
was  read  by  their  Chairman,  Prof.  Edward  E.  Salisbury, 
as  follows  : 

The  Committee  appointed  in  June  last,  to  consider  and  re¬ 
port  to  this  assembly  what,  in  their  opinion,  would  be  the  most 
permanent  memorial  to  be  placed  on  the  grounds  of  Yale 
College,  in  honor  of  those  of  its  graduates,  or  non-graduate 
students,  who  have  died  in  the  service  of  their  country  during 
the  war  just  closed,  respectfully  report  through  the  under¬ 
signed  as  follows  : 

We  have  mingled  our  congratulations,  giving  some  expres¬ 
sion  to  our  grateful  joy,  in  the  presence  and  in  honor  of  the 
survivors  among  those  of  our  brethren  who  have  so  nobly 
devoted  themselves  to  the  service  of  their  country  during  these 
last  years  of  revolutionary  convulsion  and  alarm.  We  have 
also  been  led  to  deeply  jDonder  our  obligations  to  the  illustrious 
dead,  and  to  dwell,  I  trust  not  in  vain,  upon  our  duties  as  the 

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inheritors  of  the  blessings  purchased  by  their  blood.  But  it 
remains  for  us  to  perform  a  duty  as  yet  only  cursorily  noticed, 
to  our  departed  heroes,  to  those  who  have  given  more  than  all 
others,  their  lives,  for  the  salvation  of  the  republic.  They, 
indeed,  may  look  down,  from  their  height  of  glory,  upon  all 
these  demonstrations  of  imperfect  human  feelings,  of  our  short¬ 
sighted  enthusiasm,  with  more  of  commiseration  than  of  plea¬ 
sure.  The  widening  of  their  range  of  vision,  by  translation  to 
immortality,  may  have  incapacitated  them  for  sympathy  with 
our  narrow  views,  limited  by  the  conditions  of  earthly  life. 
Yet  we  owe  it  to  ourselves,  and  to  posterity,  to  prove  that  we 
apprehend  something  of  the  wide-reaching  scope  of  their  heroic 
self-devotion,  and  are  not  wholly  devoid  of  affinity  of  spirit 
with  them,  and  to  help  to  secure  to  succeeding  generations  the 
inspiration  of  their  patriotism. 

Having  considered  various  plans  for  a  permanent  memorial 
to  the  honor  of  our  fallen  heroes,  your  Committee  are  of  opinion 
that  none  which  has  suggested  itself  would  be  so  appropriate 
and  impressive  as  a  Commemorative  Chapel,  connected  with, 
though  distinct  from,  the  house  of  worship,  for  which  the 
necessary  funds  are  already  provided,  in  part,  by  the  munifi¬ 
cence  of  one  of  the  friends  of  our  University,  and  which,  it  is 
hoped,  will  soon  be  built.  What  your  Committee  would 
recommend  is,  the  erection  of  an  appendage  to  the  Chapel  of 
the  University,  whenever  the  building  of  the  latter  shall  be 
undertaken,  opening  into  it  in  the  form  of  a  cella  or  subordin¬ 
ate  chapel,  to  be  forever  consecrated  to  the  memory  of  those 
who  have  given  their  lives  for  their  country,  where  shall  be  set 
up  at  once  votive  tablets  to  their  honor,  and  where  offerings  of 
praise  and  gratitude,  in  storied  windows,  emblematic  bas- 
reliefs,  or  groups  of  statuary,  busts,  and  the  like,  may  be 
accumulated,  from  time  to  time,  under  proper  oversight  and 
control. 

This  plan  seems  to  us  to  commend  itself  above  all  others, 
whether  we  would  put  the  highest  mark  of  honor  upon  the 
devotion  of  our  martyrs  to  national  union  and  liberty,  or  would 
most  effectually  provide  that  their  heroism  may  deeply  impress 
the  minds  of  the  living.  For,  as  to  the  former  object,  what 


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lustre  can  be  thrown  around  patriotic  self-sacrifice,  equal  in 
honor  to  the  halo  of  religious  association,  presenting  it  as 
action  performed  u  in  the  name  of  our  God/'  in  the  spirit  of 
obedience  to  Him,  and  for  the  great  cause  of  His  dominion  on 
earth  ?  and,  as  respects  influence  upon  the  living,  we  need 
only  remind  you  how  much  of  impressiveness  all  monuments 
acquire  from  the  fact  of  their  being  set  up  in  connection  with 
places  of  worship  ;  not  that  we  would  inaugurate  any  sort  of 
hero-worship,  but  simply  because  in  all  places  dedicated  to  the 
worship  of  God  the  sensibilities  are  naturally  bestirred  and 
refined,  selfish  coldness  is  for  a  while,  at  least,  thrown  off,  and 
the  spirit  is  wont  to  be  somewhat  more  than  elsewhere  attuned 
to  sympathy  with  what  is  beautiful  and  grand  in  character, 
word,  or  conduct.  Your  Committee  would  further  direct 
attention  to  the  expansiveness  of  this  place,  which  not  merely 
provides  for  temporary  commemoration,  but  also  invites  to 
the  continued  fostering  of  patriotic  feeling,  as  well  as  to  the 
gratification  of  individual  admiration,  and  of  the  justifiable 
pride  of  Classmates  in  the  noble  deeds  of  their  associates, 
whenever  other  circumstances  may  allow  it. 

EDWARD  E.  SALISBURY, 

In  behalf  of  a  majority  of  the  Committee. 

Upon  motion,  this  Report  was  adopted  by  the  meeting,  and 
the  following  gentlemen  appointed  a  Committee,  with  power 
to  add  to  their  number,  to  perfect  the  plans  and  collect  the 
necessary  funds  for  the  proposed  memorial  : — 


Prof.  Edward  E.  Salisbury, 

New  Haven. 

Rev.  Horace  Bushnell,  D.  D., 

Hartford. 

Hon.  Asahel  Huntington, 

Salem,  Mass. 

Rev.  William  Adams,  D.  D., 

New  York. 

Alphonso  Taft,  Esq., 

Cincinnati,  0. 

Joshua  Coit,  Esq., 

New  Haven. 

Henry  Day,  Esq., 

New  York. 

Major  Henry  Hitchcock, 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Joseph  E.  Sheffield,  Esq., 

New  Haven. 

George  J.  Pumpelly,  Esq., 

Oswego,  N.  Y. 

Richard  S.  Fellowes,  Esq., 

New  Haven. 

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Charles  J.  Stille,  Esq., 

Philadelphia. 

W.  W.  Phelps,  Esq., 

New  York. 

Edmund  Dwight,  Esq., 

New  York. 

Hon.  John  P.  Putnam, 

Boston. 

Hon.  Chauncey  M.  Depew, 

New  York. 

Hon.  Dwiglit  Foster, 

Boston. 

Wm.  M.  Evarts,  Esq.,  LL.  D., 

New  York. 

Charlton  T.  Lewis,  Esq., 

New  York. 

Col.  Henry  C.  Deming, 

Hartford. 

Prof.  Andrew  D.  White, 

Syracuse. 

Prof.  Daniel  C.  Gilman, 

New  Haven. 

Rev.  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  D.  D., 

New  York. 

Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman, 

New  Haven. 

Prof.  Franklin  W.  Fiske, 

Chicago. 

Robert  W.  Forbes,  Esq„ 

New  York. 

Walter  B.  Hatch,  Esq., 

New  York. 

Charles  Tracy,  Esq., 

New  York. 

Edmund  D.  Stanton,  Esq., 

New  York. 

The  hour  of  eight  o’clock,  which  had  been  fixed  for  the  de- 

livery  of  the  annual  Oration  before  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  So¬ 
ciety,  being  now  near  at  hand,  the  President  announced  to  the 
assembly,  that  the  time  for  adjournment  had  arrived, — and  so 
ended  a  day,  felt  by  all  to  have  been  fitly  spent  in  honor  of 
those  true  sons  of  Yale  who  have  also  proved  themselves  true 
sons  •  to  their  country. 


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II. 


THE  BOLL  OF  HONOR 

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The  following  list  includes  the  names  of  graduates  known  to  have  served  the 
country  in  the  Army  and  Navy  during  the  war.  In  the  several  Classes,  names  of 
non-graduate  members  will  be  found  appended,  enclosed  in  brackets.  In  every 
case  is  added  the  final  rank  attained,  so  far  as  known.  No  attempt  has  been  made 
to  collect  the  names  of  uncommissioned  Surgeons,  serving  in  hospitals  at  home,  or 
of  agents  of  the  Sanitary  and  Christian  Commissions. 

The  list  is  necessarily  imperfect,  but  it  is  hoped  that  all  persons  able  to  add  any 
information,  (especially  concerning  themselves,)  however  slight,  will  forward  such 
information  to  the  undersigned. 

Franklin  B.  Dexter. 

Yale  College,  Feb.,  1866. 

ACADEMICAL  DEPARTMENT. 

1804. 

Rev.  John  Pierpont,  Chaplain  22d  Mass.  Infantry. 

1809. 

Rev.  Burr  Baldwin,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

1814. 

David  S.  Edwards,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

1818. 

Rev.  Joseph  Hurlbut,  Chaplain  U.  S.  Y. 

Rev.  Joel  W.  Newton,  Chaplain  U.  S.  N. 

1821. 

Rev.  John  R.  Adams,  D.  D.,  Chaplain  5th  Me.  and  121st  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

John  Boyd,  Private,  2d.  Conn.  Infantry. 

1823. 

Rev.  George  Jones,  Chaplain  U.  S.  N. 

1825. 

John  J.  Abernethy,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

*Rev.  Joseph  H.  Nichols,  Chaplain  19th  Wisconsin  Infantry, 

*1862,  Dec.  11,  Washington,  D.  C. 


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1828. 

Rev.  Gurdon  S.  Coit,  D.  D.,  Chaplain  Berdan’s  1st  Regt.  Sharpshooters. 
*Rev.  Fitch  W.  Taylor,  Senior  Chaplain  U.  S.  N. 

*1865,  July  24,  New  York  City. 

1829. 

*Mason  F.  Cogswell,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

*1865,  Jan.  21,  Albany,  N,  Y. 

Daniel  Ullmann,  LL.  D.,  Colonel  18th  N.  Y.  Infantry,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  V. 

1830. 

[*Rev.  Gordon  Winslow,  M.  D.,  D.  D.,  Chaplain  Duryee  Zouaves. 

*1864,  June  1,  Potomac  River.] 

1831. 

Rev.  Chester  Newell,  Chaplain  U.  S.  N. 

James  C.  Stuart,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  17th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Alpheus  S.  Williams,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Y.,  Brevet  Major  General. 

1832. 

Rev.  William  W.  Backus,  Private  1st  Kansas  Cavalry. 

Cassius  M.  Clay,  Major  General  U.  S.  Y. 

Rev.  Edward  0.  Dunning,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

William  H.  Noble,  Colonel  17th  Conn.  Infantry,  Brevet  Brig.  General. 

1833. 

Samuel  H.  Bates,  Sergeant  24th  Mass.  Infantry. 

*Rev.  Robert  Carver,  Chaplain  7th  Mass.  Infantry. 

*1863,  Feb.  25,  Orient,  L.  I. 

*Rev.  Hiram  Doane,  Chaplain  47th  III.  Infantry. 

*1863,  July  22,  Yicksburg,  Miss. 

Rev.  Zerah  K.  Hawley,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

1835. 

Josiah  Abbott,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Christopher  C.  Cox,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 

Theodore  Dimon,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  N.  Y.  Yols. 

Rev.  John  Y.  Dodge,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

Rev.  George  A.  Oviatt,  Chaplain  25th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1836. 

Henry  C.  Deming,  LL.  D.,  Colonel  12th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Pinckney  W.  Ellsworth,  M.  D.,  Brig.  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

William  S.  Pierson,  Colonel  Commandant  at  Johnson’s  Island,  Ohio. 
[Henry  W.  Benliam,  (West  Point,)  Brevet  Major  Gen.  U.  S.  Y.] 

1837. 

Rev.  James  A.  Hawley,  Chaplain  63d  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Ambrose  Pratt,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  2 2d  Conn.  Infantry. 

Charles  W.  Stearns,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  3d  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Rev.  Andrew  L.  Stone,  D.  D.,  Chaplain  45th  Mass.  Infantry. 

1838. 

ev.  James  B.  Crane,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 


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Edmund  L.  Dana,  Colonel  143d  Penn.  Infantry. 

Rev.  Joel  G-rant,  Chaplain  12th  Ill.  Infantry. 

Thomas  M.  Key,  Colonel  and  A.  D.  C.,  U.  S.  A. 

[Dwight  Morris,  Colonel  14th  Conn.  Infantry.] 

1839. 

Horace  C.  Peck,  1st  Lieut.  9th  Penn.  Militia. 

*Rev.  L.  Ward  Smith,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

*1863,  Dec.  22,  Germantown,  Penn. 

*David  S.  Cowles,  Colonel  128tli  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*1863,  May  21,  Port  Hudson,  La. 

*Erancis  M.  McLellan,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  N.  Y.  Marine  Art.,  and  13tli  N.  Y.  Art. 
*1863,  Nov.  12,  Maspeth,  L.  I.] 

1840. 

Josiah  Curtis,  M.  D.,  Brig.  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 

Rev.  Richard  Y.  Dodge,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

John  F.  Head,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

Rev.  Horace  James,  Chaplain  25th  Mass.  Inf.,  Capt.  and  A  Q.  M.,  U.  S.  Y. 
Lewis  B.  Parsons,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Y.in  charge  of  Bureau  of  Transportation. 
Charles  S.  Shelton,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  Bissell’s  Engineers,  Mo.  Infantry. 

1841. 

Rev.  Albert  Paine,  Resident  Chaplain,  Fortress  Monroe. 

[William  Birney,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S  Y. 

Francis  P.  Blair,  Jr.,  Major  General  U.  S.  Y.] 

1842. 

Rev.  Alexander  H.  Clapp,  Chaplain  10th  R.  I.  Infantry. 

Rev.  Samuel  W.  Eaton,  Chaplain  1th  Wisconsin  Infantry. 

Sylvester  Earned,  Lieut.  Colonel  2d  Mich.  Infantry. 

Theodore  Runyon,  Major  General  N.  J.  Militia,  (3  months  in  field). 

Samuel  W.  Skinner,  M  D.,  Surgeon  1st  Conn.  Artillery. 

Rev.  Prof.  Eliphalet  Whittlesey,  Chaplain  Me.  Inf.,  Col.  46th  U.  S.  Colored  Inf. 

1843. 

*Rev.  James  H.  Dill,  Chaplain  38th  Ill.  Infantry. 

*1863,  Jan.  14,  near  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Rev.  Isaac  M.  Ely,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

*Prof.  Joseph  S.  Hubbaad,  U.  S.  N. 

*1863,  Aug.  16,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Rev.  Cyrus  Huntington,  Chaplain  1st  Md.  Infantry. 

*John  M.  Huntington,  Captain  and  A  Q.  M.,  U.  S.  Y. 

*1864,  Oct.  10,  Marietta,  0. 

Henry  A.  Weeks,  M.  D.,  Col.  12th  N.  Y  Infantry. 

[Charles  C.  Gilbert,  (West  Point,)  Major  19th  U.  S.  Infantry.] 

1844. 

Charles  H.  Crane,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  A.,  Brevet  Brig.  Gen.,  Acting  Surg.  Gen. 
Orris  S.  Ferry,  Colonel  5th  Conn.  Infantry,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Yols. 

Thaddeus  Foote,  Colonel  10th  Mich.  Cavalry. 

Wait  R.  Griswold,  Assist.  Surg.  22d  Conn.  Inf.,  Surgeon  86th  U.'S.  Colored  Inf- 
Joseph  K.  Merritt,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

Charles  H.  Rogers,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  lltli  Conn.  Infantry. 


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James  A.  Sheldon,  Captain  Yt.  Cavalry. 

Nathaniel  W.  Taylor,  M.  D.,  Hospital  Steward. 

1845. 

Henry  B.  Carrington,  Colonel  18th  U.  S.  Infantry,  Brig.  G-en.  U.  S.  Y. 
George  D  Harrington,  Captain,  Yt. 

Rev.  John  T.  M  irsh,  Private,  Wis.  Artillery. 

*James  Redfield,  Lieut  Colonel  39th  Iowa  Infantry. 

*1864.  Oct.  6,  Allatoona  Pass,  Ga. 

Leonard  E.  Wales,  2d  Lieut.  1st  Del.  Infantry. 

William  B.  Woods,  Lt.  Col.  16th  Ohio  Inf.,  Brigadier  General  U.  S.  Y. 

1846. 

Henry  Case,  Colonel  129th  Ill.  Infantry,  Brevet  Brig,  General  U.  S.  Y. 
George  E.  Chester,  Colonel,  N.  Y. 

John  B.  Conyngham,  Lieut.  Colonel  146th  Penn. 

1847. 

John  Coon.  Major  and  Paymaster,  U.  S.  Y. 

*Othniel  DeForest,  Colonel  5th  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

*1864,  Dec.  16,  N.  Y.  City. 

Emlen  Franklin,  Colonel  122d  Penn.  Infantry. 

*Henry  C.  Kutz,  Major  and  A.  D.  C.  Major  Gen.  Pleasanton. 

*1862,  April  24,  Wilkesbarre,  Penn. 

*Rev.  Daniel  T.  Noyes,  1st  Lieut.  6th  Wis.  Battery. 

*1862,  Oct.  4.  Corinth,  Miss. 

Edward  G.  Parker,  Capt.  and  A.  A.  G.,  Chief  of  Staff  to  Gen.  Martindale. 

1848. 

John  F.  Brinton,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 

Henry  Hitchcock,  Maj.  on  Gen.  Sherman’s  Staff,  and  Judge  Adv.,  Brev.  Col. 
Samuel  C.  Perkins,  1st  Lieut.  1st  Phila.  Light  Battery,  (Militia). 

Rev.  Charles  0.  Reynolds,  Chaplain  Uth  Conn.  Infantry. 

*Theodore  Winthrop,  Major  and  A.  D.  C.  to  Gen.  Butler. 

*1861,  June  10,  Great  Bethel,  Ya. 

1849. 

Enoch  G.  Adams,  Captain  U.  S.  Y. 

Edward  A.  Arnold,  M.  D.,  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

*Sheldon  C.  Beecher,  Captain  139th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*1864,  June  2,  Cold  Harbor,  Ya. 

George  Benedict.  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  23d  Conn.  Infantry. 

George  Douglas,  Private  2 2d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  (3  months). 

Rev.  Charles  J.  Hutchins,  Chaplain  39th  Wis.  Infantry. 

William  H.  Jessup,  Major  28th  Penn.  Militia,  (3  months). 

John  Oakey,  Private  1th  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 

*  Andrew  Upson,  Captain  20th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1864,  Feb.  19,  near  Tracy  City.  Tenn. 

Rev.  Curtiss  T.  Woodruff,  Chaplain  6th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1850. 

A.  De  Witt  Baldwin,  Private  1th  N.  Y.  S.  N.  G.  (30  days). 


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William  Brush,  Colonel  2 1th  Iowa  Infantry. 

William  T.  Farnham,  Captain  129th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*Chauncey  M.  Hand,  Private  2d  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

*  1865,  Oct.  5,  Madison,  Conn. 

Benjamin  J.  Horton,  Captain  24th  Ohio  Infantry. 

Garrick  Mallery,  Lieut.  Colonel  U.  S.  Veteran  Reserve  Corps. 

♦Prof.  Newton  S.  Manross,  Ph.  D.,  Captain  16th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Sept.  1*7,  Antietam,  Md. 

Edward  Muhlenberg,  1st  Lieut.  4th  U.  S.  Artillery. 

Sylvanus  S.  Mulford,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  V. 

Rev.  Moses  C.  Welch,  Chaplain  5th  Conn.  Infantry. 

[James  A.  Wilcox,  Col.  and  Provost  Marshal  General  of  0.] 

1851. 

William  A.  Atlee,  Captain  50th  Penn.  Infantry,  (Militia). 

Prof.  Rufus  C.  Crampton,  Lieut.  Colonel,  Ill. 

James  A.  Estabrook,  Q.  M.  3d  Battalion  Mass.  Vol.  Militia,  (3  months). 
William  T.  Harlow,  Major  51th  Mass.  Infantry. 

George  G.  Hastings,  Major  1st  U.  S.  Sharpshooters. 

Charles  G.  Hayes,  Sergeant. 

John  W.  Noble,  Colonel  3d  Iowa  Cavalry,  Brevet  Brig.  Gen. 

David  P.  Smith,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  18th  Mass.  Inf.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  V. 

Prof.  R.  Cresson  Stiles,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Vols. 

George  S.  Tuckerman,  Captain  Berdan’s  Sharpshooters. 

James  Van  Blarcom. 

William  W.  Winthrop,  Major  and  Judge  Advocate  U.  S.  V.,  Brevet  Colonel. 
[*David  B.  Greene,  (Williams  Coll.,  1852,)  Captain  Missouri  Infantry. 

Nathan  N.  Withington,  Sergeant  3d  U.  S.  Vet.  Reserve  Corps.] 

1852. 

Douglass  Bannan,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

Charles  M.  Bliss,  2d  Lieut.  2d  Vermont  Infantry. 

Lebeus  C.  Chapin,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  V. 

Rev.  Prof.  Jacob  Cooper,  Chaplain  3d  Kentucky  Infantry. 

John  C.  Dubois,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  V. 

Rev.  James  II.  Dwight,  Chaplain  66th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

John  Elderkin,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  10th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 
Charles  A.  Griswold,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  93d  Illinois  Infantry. 

Franklin  Grube,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  IT.  S.  V. 

Henry  McCormick,  Captain  25th  Penn.  Infantry,  (3  months.) 

George  S.  Mygatt,  Lieut.  Colonel  41st  Ohio  Infantry. 

Samuel  C.  Robinson,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

Rev.  N.  W.  T.  Root,  Chaplain  9th  R.  I.  Infantry. 

William  B.  Ross,  Private  1th  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.  (3  months.) 

Rev.  Charles  C.  Salter,  Chaplain  13th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Rev.  Moses  Smith,  Chaplain  8th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Homer  B.  Sprague,  Lieut.  Colonel  13th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Melancthon  Storrs,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  8tli  Conn.  Infantry,  Brig.  Surgeon. 


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Frederick  B.  Swift,  Private  7th  N.  Y.  S.  N.  G-.  (3  months). 

Adrian  Terry,  Lieut.  Colonel,  and  A.  A.  G-.,  U.  S.  Y. 

[William  M.  Este,  (Harvard  College,  1852,)  Major  and  A.  D.  C.,  U.  S.  Y. 
*H.  Watson  McNeil,  Colonel  Penn.  (“Bucktail  Regiment.”) 

*1862,  Sept.  17,  Antietam,  Md. 

George  S.  Williams,  Capt.  19th  Conn.  Infantry.] 

1853. 

Theodore  Bacon,  Captain  7th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Benjamin  F.  Baer,  Captain  12  2d  Penn.  Infantry. 

George  W.  Baldwin,  Captain  and  A.  A.  G.,  U.  S.  Yols. 

Albert  W.  Bishop,  Lieut.  Colonel  1st  Arkansas  Cavalry,  and  Brig.  Gen. 
Hudson  Burr,  Capt.  and  A.  A.  G.  U.  S.  Y. 

*William  S.  Denniston,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  38th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 
*1862,  July  22,  James  River,  Ya. 

Jeremiah  E.  Greene.  Captain  15th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Edward  Harland,  Colonel  8th  Conn.  Infantry,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Yols. 

Rev.  Theodore  J.  Holmes,  Chaplain  1st  Conn.  Cavalry. 

William  M.  Hudson,  M.  D.,  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

John  A.  W.  Jones,  Quartermaster’s  Department  of  Western  Ya. 

Wayne  McYeagh,  Colonel  Penn.  Cavalry,  (Militia). 

Thomas  P.  Nicholas,  Major,  Kentucky  Yols. 

Samuel  B.  Spooner,  Major  46tli  Mass.  Infantry. 

Henry  P.  Stearns,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  1st  Conn.  Infantry,  Brig.  Surg.  U.  S.  Y. 
Richard  Waite,  Captain  84th  0.  Infantry. 

[Isaac  H.  Bromley,  Capt.  18th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Charles  H.  Whittelsey,  Brevet  Colonel  and  A.  A.  G.,  U.  S.  Y.] 

1854. 

Charles  T.  Alexander,  M.  D.,  Surg.  U.  S.  A. 

Bennet  J.  Bristol,  Surgeon  59th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Jedediah  K.  Burnham,  Private  7  6th  Penn.  Infantry. 

J.  Tillotson  Clarke,  Private  20th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Prof.  Carroll  Cutler,  Lieut.  84th  Ohio  Infantry,  (3  months). 

Rev.  William  R.  Eastman,  Chaplain  72d  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Elizur  Hitchcock,  Assistant  Surgeon  7th  Ohio  Infantry. 

Henry  E.  Howland,  Captain  22d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 

George  DeF.  Lord,  1st  Lieut.  22d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  (3  months). 

William  H.  Palmer,  Surgeon  3d  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

Ira  W.  Pettibone,  Colonel  10th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Leander  H.  Potter,  Colonel  33d  Ill.  Infantry. 

*James  C.  Rice,  Lieut.  Colonel  44th  N.  Y.  Infantry,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Y. 
*1864,  May  11,  Spottsylvania  C.  H.,  Ya. 

Francis  H.  Slade,  Sergeant  2 2d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  (3  months). 

Orson  C.  Sparrow,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 

*Lewis  L.  Weld,  Lieut.  Colonel  7th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

*1865,  Jan.  10,  Point  of  Rocks,  Ya. 

Rev.  Erskine  N.  White,  Acting  Chaplain  22d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 

[* Augustus  W.  Dwight,  Lieut.  Colonel  122d  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*1865,  March  25,  near  Patrick’s  Station,  Ya. 


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0.  Clinton  Latimer,  Surgeon  139th  Ill.  Infantry. 

*John  McConihe,  Lieut.  Colonel  169th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Alfred  Mitchell,  Captain  13th  Conn.  Infantry. 

William  S.  Shurtleff,  Colonel  46th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Stewart  L.  Woodford,  Col.  103d  U.  S.  Col’d  Inf.,  Brevet  Brig.  General  U.  S.  V.] 

1855. 

Charles  J.  F.  Allen,  Paymaster  and  Major  U.  S.  A. 

Judson  B.  Andrews,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  2d  Conn.  Artillery. 

William  L.  Avery,  Captain  and  A.  D.  C.  Major  General  Granger. 

Nathaniel  W.  Bumstead,  Captain  45th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Henry  T.  Chittenden,  Ohio  Militia. 

I.  Edwards  Clarke,  Colonel  and  Marshal  of  U.  S.  Provisional  Court  of  La. 

Elijah  Cone,  Private  4th  Wisconsin  Infantry. 

Martin  B.  Ewing,  Lieut.  Colonel  2d  Ohio  Heavy  Artillery. 

Josiah  W.  Harmar,  Private  1st  Phil.  Light  Battery,  (Militia). 

Rev.  Hiram  L.  Howard,  Chaplain  59th  Mass.  Infantry,  (Colored). 

Van  Buren  Hubbard,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A.,  and  Brevet  Major. 

David  L.  Huntington,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

Simeon  T.  Hyde,  1st  Lieut.  15th  Conn.  Inf.,  and  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  Harland. 
Alexander  McD.  Lyon,  Paymaster  U.  S.  A. 

John  H.  Piatt,  Captain  and  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  Sigel,  Brevet  Major  U.  S.  A. 

Granville  T.  Pierce,  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

Prof.  Alfred  P.  Rockwell,  Capt.  1st  Conn.  Light  Battery,  Col.  6th  Conn.  Inf. 
Franklin  A.  Seely,  Captain  and  A.  Q.  M.,  U.  S.  V. 

♦George  Stuart,  1st  Lieut.  13th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

*1863,  July  11,  Sherman,  Conn. 

Rev.  William  H.  Taylor,  Chaplain  48th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Rev.  Charles  M.  Tyler,  Chaplain  22 d  Mass.  Infantry. 

♦William  Wheeler,  Captain  13th  N.  Y.  Independent  Battery. 

*1864,  June  22,  near  Marietta,  Ga. 

Andrew  J.  Willets,  Surgeon  176th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Stanley  T.  Woodward,  Captain  41st  Penn.  Militia. 

[♦Frederick  A.  Bemis,  1st  Lieut.  21st  Mass.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Sept.  1,  Chantilly,  Va. 

*William  S.  Heath,  Lieut.  Colonel  5th  Me.  Infantry. 

*1862,  June  27,  Gaines’s  Mills,  Va.] 

1856. 

♦Nelson  Bartholomew,  1st  Lieut.  15th  Mass.  Infantry. 

*1861,  Nov.  21,  Phila.,  Penn. 

John  M.  Brown,  Colonel  Commanding  2d  Brigade,  5th  Division,  23d  Corps. 
*Charles  E.  Bulkeley,  Captain  1st  Conn.  Artillery. 

*1864,  Feb.  13.  Battery  Garesche,  Va. 

Stephen  Condit,  Private  23d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  (30  days). 

Edward  0.  Cowles,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  15th  Conn.  Infantry. 

James  0.  Denniston,  Captain  124th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Frank  Fellowes,  Private  1st  Conn.  Infantry,  (3  months). 

William  T.  Kittredge,  Sergeant  Major  2d  Minn.  Infantry, 


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*llenry  M.  McEntire,  Lieut.  Colonel  1st  Penn.  Reserve  Infantry. 

*1863,  Jan.  16,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Lewis  E.  Mills,  Yol.  Aid  to  Brig.  G-en.  Potter  in  the  Vicksburgh  Campaign. 
Edward  P.  Nettleton,  Colonel  31st  Mass.  Infantry. 

George  E.  H.  Pease,  Captain  Ill.  Infantry. 

*ErankH.  Peck,  Colonel  12th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1864,  Sept.  20,  Opequan  Creek,  Ya. 

John  T.  Price,  Captain  5th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

David  P.  Richardson,  Commissary  6th  X.  Y.  Cavalry. 

John  B.  Stickney,  Captain  35tli  Mass.  Infantry. 

"Wager  S wayne,  Colonel  43d  Ohio  Infantry,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Y. 

Rev.  Edward  A.  Walker,  Chaplain  1st  Conn.  Artillery. 

*Samuel  F.  Woods,  1st  Lieut,  and  Adj.  34th  Mass.  Infantry,  A.  A.  A.  G.  Staff  oi 
Gen.  Weber. 

*1864,  June  26,  Worcester,  Mass.,  (wounded  at  Piedmont,  Ya.) 

[*Duniel  M.  Mead,  Major  10th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Sept.  20,  Greenwich,  Conn. 

Samuel  T.  C.  Merwin,  Captain  18th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Sidney  A.  Moulthrop,  Hospital  Steward  U.  S.  A. 

*Horton  R.  Platt.] 

1857. 

Edwin  Barrows,  Quartermaster  Sergeant  4th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Theodore  W.  E.  Belden,  Engineer  134th  Illinois  Infantry. 

*Rev.  Francis  E.  Butler,  Chaplain  25th  X.  J.  Infantry. 

*1863,  May  4,  Suffolk,  Ya. 

Myron  X.  Chamberlin,  Private  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Joseph  A.  Christman,  Private  6th  0.  Infantry. 

John  T.  Croxton,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Yols. 

Rev.  Henry  S.  DeForest,  Chaplain  11th  Conn.  Infantry. 

William  E.  D  >ster,  Colonel  5th  Penn.  Cavalry. 

*  Albert  W.  Drake,  Colonel  10  th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  June  5,  South  Windsor,  Conn. 

Edward  L.  Duer,  M.  D.,  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon. 

*Henry  M.  Dutton,  1st  Lieut.  5th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Aug.  9,  Cedar  Mountain,  Ya. 

James  H.  Grant,  Lieut.  Colonel  22d  X.  G.  S.  X.  Y. 

*John  Griswold,  Captain  lltli  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Sept.  18,  Antietam,  Md. 

Yolney  Hickox,  Capt.  and  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  Hunter. 

Stephen  Holden,  2d  Lieut.  15 2d  X.  Y.  Infantry. 

Joseph  C.  Jackson,  Captain  and  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  Franklin. 

Bela  P.  Learned,  Captain  1st  Conn.  Artillery,  Brevet  Major. 

Rev.  James  Marshall,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

*Edward  L  Porter,  Captain  18th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1863,  June  15,  Winchester,  Ya. 

*George  W.  Roberts,  Colonel  42d  Ill.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Dec.  31,  Murfreesboro1,  Tenn. 

Warren  K.  Soutliwick,  Corporal  45th  Mass.  Infantry. 


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George  B.  Thomas,  Captain  2d  Penn.  Infantry. 

Nathan  Willey,  Private  22d  Conn.  Infantry. 

Ephraim  M.  Wood,  Captain  15th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

1858, 

William  P.  Bacon,  Lieut.  Colonel  5th  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

William  C.  Bennett,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  5th  Conn.  Infantry,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 
*Edward  F.  Blake,  Major  5th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Aug.  9,  Cedar  Mountain,  Va. 

Daniel  G.  Brinton,  Surgeon  U.  S.  V.,  Brevet  Lieut.  Colonel  U.  S.  Y. 

Orlando  Brown,  Lieut.  Colonel  14th  Kentucky  Infantry. 

Samuel  Caldwell,  Captain  8th  Ill.  Infantry. 

Matthew  Chalmers,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

George  M.  Franklin,  Captain  12 2d  Penn.  Infantry. 

Jeptha  Garrard,  Colonel  1st  U.  S.  Colored  Cavalry. 

William  S.  Hubbell,  Captain  21st  Conn.  Infantry. 

William  F.  Ingerson,  Sergeant  Signal  Corps,  U.  S.  A. 

William  A.  McDowell,  1st  Lieut.,  and  Commissary  17th  Pa.  Cavalry. 

William  A.  Magill,  Hospital  Steward  25th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Arthur  Mathewson,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U  S.  N. 

Kev.  Daniel  A.  Miles,  Chaplain  7th  N.  J.  Infantry. 

Robert  Morris,  Captain  1st  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Horace  Neide,  Lieut.  Colonel  13th  U.  S.  Yet.  Reserve  Corps. 

Luther  H%  Peirce,  Lieut.  Col.  and  A.  Q.  M.,  U.  S.  A.,  Brevet  Colonel. 

Thomas  A.  Perkins,  Sergeant  22d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 

Electus  A.  Pratt,  Captain  8th  H.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Henry  A.  Pratt,  1st  Lieut.  1st  Conn.  Heavy  Artillery  and  Brev.  Capt. 

Channing  Richards,  Captain  2 2d  Ohio  Infantry. 

Rev.  Isaac  Riley,  Sergeant  7th  Deb  Infantry. 

Henry  Royer,  Colonel  53d  Penn.  Infantry,  (Militia). 

Eben  G.  Scott,  1st  Lieut.  5th  Artillery,  U.  S.  A. 

George  F.  Smith,  Colonel  61st  Penn.  Infantry. 

Frederick  W.  Stevens,  Private  2 2d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 

Charles  Tomlinson,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  14th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*Theodore  W.  Twining,  Private  37tli  N.  Y.  Infantry,  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 
*1864,  Aug.  14,  Tampa  Bay,  Fla. 

Gideon  Wells,  1st  Lieut.  46th  Mass.  Infantry. 

*Charles  B.  Whittlese}^  Private  55th  Ohio  Infantry. 

*1864,  Feb.  21,  Nashville,  Term. 

Albert  B.  Wilbur,  Com’y  15th  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

[Frederick  L.  Buckelew,  Adjutant  14th  N.  J.  Infantry. 

Frederick  F.  Burlock,  Captain  4th  Arkansas  Cavalry. 

*Herrick  Hayner,  1st.  Lieut.  1st  Regiment  Excelsior  Brigade,  (N.  lr.) 

*1862,  May  4,  Williamsburg,  Ya. 

Allison  H.  Norcutt,  Private,  Illinois. 

Charles  H.  Russell,  Act.  Chaplain  Lamon’s  Ya.  Brigade,  Major  1st  Md.  Cavalry. 
Jacob  H.  Smyser,  1st  Lieut.  5th  U.  S.  Artillery. 

Eugene  R.  Stevens,  Private  129th  Ill.  Infantry. 

Herbert  B.  Titus,  Colonel  2d  N.  H.  Infantry.] 


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1859. 

Charles  H.  Boardman,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon. 

Thomas  C.  Brainerd,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

Henry  L.  Breed,  Corporal  44th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Pitts  H.  Burt,  Private,  7th  Ohio  National  G-uard. 

*Edward  Carrington,  1st  Lieut,  and  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  Newton. 

*1865,  March  6,  St.  Marks,  Fla. 

Benjamin  S.  Catlin,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  21st  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

Green  Clay,  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  Schoepf. 

Apollos  Comstock,  Major  13th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Rev.  William  B.  Darrach,  Chaplain  20th  N.  Y.  S.  M. 

Thomas  B.  Dwight,  Private  Landis’s  Battery,  Penn.  Militia. 

Lester  B.  Faulkner,  Colonel  136th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Rev.  William  K.  Hall,  Chaplain  17th  Conn.  Infantrv. 

*Diodate  C.  Hannahs,  Captain  6th  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

*1862,  Sept.  10,  Williamsburgh,  Ya. 

Charles  H.  Hatch,  Major  13th  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

Edward  S.  Hinckley,  1st  Lieut.  18th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Henry  R.  Hinckley,  2d  Lieut.  5th  Mass.  Colored  Cavalry. 

Frank  J.  Jones,  Captain  and  A  D.  C.  Brig.  Gen.  McCook. 

Thomas  R.  Lounsbury,  1st  Lieut.  126th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Rev.  Charles  N.  Lyman,  Chaplain  20th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Rudolph  McMurtrie. 

William  H.  Mather,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  17  3d  N.  Y.  Infantry. 
John  C.  W.  Moore,  2d  N.  H.  Infantry,  Hospital  Department. 

Homer  G.  Newton,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  131st  N.  Y.  Infantry. 
Charles  L.  Norton,  Colonel  78th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Truman  A.  Post,  Adjutant  40th  Mo.  Infantry. 

Rev.  William  H.  Rice,  Chaplain  129th  Penn.  Infantry. 

William  J.  Roberts,  Captain  8tli  Conn.  Infantry. 

Alexander  H.  Stanton,  Captain  16th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

Joseph  T.  Tatum,  Adjutant  2d  Mo.  Cavalry. 

Rev.  Joseph  H.  Twicliell,  Chaplain  7 1st  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Rev.  Henry  Upson,  Chaplain  13th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Hezekiah  Watkins,  Lieut.  Colonel  143d  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*Charles  M.  Wheeler,  Captain  126th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*1863,  July  4,  Gettysburg,  Penn. 

Charles  P.  Wilson,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  Hospital. 

Henry  Winn,  Major  5 2d  Mass.  Infantry. 

[George  Badger,  M.  D.,  A.  A.  Surgeon,  U.  S.  A. 

William  Badger,  M.  D.,  A.  A.  Surgeon,  U.  S.  A. 

William  P.  Brooks,  2d  Lieut.  29tli  Conn.  Infantry. 

Thomas  R.  Clark,  Lieut.  N.  Y. 

George  T  Ferris,  Private  Sturgis’  Rifles. 

George  Fisher,  Lieut.  Penn.  Cavalry. 

Charles  L.  Fitzhugh,  1st  Lt.  4th  U.  S.  Artillery^,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Y. 
Wood  Fosdick. 

Frank  B,  Hamilton,  1st  Lieut.  3d  U.  S.  Artillery. 


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Edward  C.  Huggins,  1st  Lieut.,  Ohio. 

William  T.  Lusk,  M.  D.,  Capt.  and  A.  A.  G-. 

Robert  P.  McKibbin,  Captain  4th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

Elbridge  F.  Meconkey,  A.  D.  C.  General  McCall. 

Daniel  S.  Moulton,  Captain,  Mass.  Yols. 

Augustus  W.  Nicoll,  (Union  Coll.,  1859,)  Private  1th  N.  Y.  S.  M. 

Daniel  W.  Searle,  Adj.  141st  Penn.  Infantry. 

George  M.  Wesson,  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  N.] 

1860. 

*George  W.  Arnold,  Sergeant  12th  R.  I.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Dec.  8,  Fairfax,  Ya. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Barnes,  Chaplain  12d  Ill.  Infantry. 

William  E.  Bradley,  Captain  13th  Conn.  Infantry. 

W.  Lockwood  Bradley,  M.  D.,  Medical  Cadet. 

William  M.  Bristoll,  Lieut.  13th  Wis.  Battery. 

Richard  B.  Brown,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

*Heury  W.  Camp,  Major  10th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1864,  Oct  13,  near  Richmond,  Ya. 

George  L.  Catlin,  1st  Lieut.  101st  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Frederick  H.  Colton,  Assistant  Surgeon. 

Clarence  E.  Dutton,  Capt.  21st  Conn.  Inf.,  2d  Lieut.  Ord.  Department  U.  S.  A. 
Daniel  C.  Eaton,  Private  1th  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  (3  months). 

Edgar  A.  Finney,  Captain  21st  N.  J.  Infantry. 

William  E.  Foster,  Acting  Assistant  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

William  Fowler,  Captain  and  A.  A.  G. 

Rev.  Edward  B.  Furbish,  Chaplain  25th  Me.  Infantry. 

Edward  L.  Gaul,  Lieut.  Colonel  159th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

George  W.  Giddings,  Private  198th  Penn.  Militia. 

David  L.  Haight,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 

Rev.  Henry  L.  Hall,  Chaplain  10th  Conn.  Infantry. 

•‘Daniel  Hebard,  Captain  and  A.  A.  G.  on  Staff  of  Gen.  Gorman. 

*1862,  Aug.  1,  N.  Y.  City. 

John  Howard,  Private  12th  Mass.  Infantry. 

William  H.  Hurlbut,  Private  1th  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 

Henry  L.  Johnson,  1st  Lieut.  5th  Conn.  Infantry,  Captain  and  A.  A.  G. 

*Rev.  William  C.  Johnston,  Chaplain  13th  Kentucky  Infantry. 

*1862,  Dec.  3,  Mumfordville,  Kentucky. 

Henry  G.  Marshall,  Captain  29th  Conn.  Infantry,  (Col’d). 

Rev.  John  M.  Morris,  Chaplain  8th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*Frederick  C.  Ogden,  1st  Lieut,  and  Adjutant  1st  U.  S.  Cavalry. 

*1864,  June  11,  Trevillian  Station,  Ya. 

Charles  H.  Owen,  1st  Lieut.  1st  Conn,  Artillery,  and  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  R.  0.  Tyler. 
John  R.  Parsons,  Major  1st  La.  Infantry. 

George  D.  Phelps,  Private  2 2d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.  (3  months). 

Isaac  J.  Post,  Quartermaster  111st  Penn.  Infantry. 

*Rev.  James  H.  Schneider,  Chaplain  2d  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

*1864,  April  25,  Key  West,  Fla. 

Pierre  S.  Starr,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  39th  O.  Infantry. 


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Francis  R.  Way,  Private  1st  Phila.  Light  Battery,  Militia. 

Xenophon  Wheeler,  Captain  129th  0.  Infantry. 

Robert  N.  Willson,  Private  1st  Phila.  Light  Battery,  Militia. 

Lewis  S.  Worthington,  2d  Lieut.  6th  0.  Infantry. 

[Samuel  H.  Davis,  Captain  14th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Charles  C.  Dodge,  Colonel  1st  X.  Y.  Mounted  Rifles,  and  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Yols. 
George  W.  Green,  1st  Lieut,  lltli  U.  S.  Infantry. 

James  W.  Hervey,  Captain  3d  Mass.  Cavalry. 

Rev.  Samuel  Jessup,  Chaplain  6th  Penn.  Reserve  Infantry. 

Kidder  M.  Scott,  Captain,  X.  Y. 

William  H.  S.  Sweet,  1st  Lieut.  146th  X.  Y.  Infantry. 

Frank  W.  Wiswell,  Capt.,  10th  Me.  Infantry.] 

1861. 

*John  X.  Bannan,  Corporal,  Anderson  Penn.  Cavalry. 

*1863,  Xov.  20,  Pottsville,  Penn. 

George  B.  Bonney,  Private  10th  R.  I.  Infantry,  (3  months). 

Hubert  S.  Brown,  Captain  and  A.  A.  G.  on  Major  Gen.  ILazen’s  Staff. 

Milton  Bulkley,  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

Robert  L.  Chamberlain,  Private  84th  O.  Infantry. 

*William  B.  Clark,  Captain  22dU.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

*1864,  Oct  27,  near  Richmond,  Ya. 

William  Cook,  Captain  9th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Moulton  DeForest,  Captain  18th  Wis.  Infantry. 

George  Delp,  Private  Penn  Militia. 

William  C.  Egleston,  1st  Lieut.  43d  X.  Y.  Infantry. 

William  C.  Faxon,  Captain  1st  Conn.  Artillery,  and  Brevet  Major. 

Robert  H.  Fitzhugh,  Lieut.  Colonel  1st  X.  Y.  Light  Artillery. 

Joseph  X.  Flint,  1st  Lieut.  1st  X.  Y.  Dragoons. 

Amasa  F.  Haradon,  Acting  Master’s  Mate,  U.  S.  X. 

William  H.  Higbee,  Acting  Assistant  Paymaster,  U.  S.  X. 

Anthony  Higgins,  Private  7th  Del.  Infantry,  (30  days). 

James  X.  Hyde,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  X. 

Brayton  Ives,  Colonel  1st  Conn.  Cavalry. 

Walter  F.  Jones,  2d  Lieut.  61st  X.  Y.  Infantry. 

John  C.  Kinney,  1st  Lieut.  13th  Conn.  Infantry,  and  Acting  Signal  Officer. 

Isaac  S.  Lyon,  2d  Lieut.  11th  Conn.  Inf.,  1st  Lieut.  Signal  Corps  U.  S.  A. 

Oliver  McClintock,  Sergeant  Penn.  Militia. 

Edward  P.  McKinney,  Captain  of  Subsistence,  U.  S.  Y.,  Brevet  Major. 

James  W.  McLane,  M.  D.,  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

John  E.  Marshall,  Brevet  Major  and  A.  A.  G.,  U.  S.  Y. 

Charles  G.  G.  Merrill,  M.  D.,  Surg.  22d  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Rev.  Edward  P.  Payson,  Chaplain  146th  X.  Y.  Infantry. 

*James  P.  Pratt,  1st  Lieut,  and  Adjutant  11th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

*1864,  May  29.  near  Hanover  Town,  Ya, 

Francis  R.  Schmucker,  Captain  128th  Penn.  Infantry. 

Rev.  S.  Franklin  Schoonmaker,  Chaplain  34th  X.  Y.  Infantry. 

Winthrop  D.  Sheldon,  2d  Lieut.  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Charles  T.  Stanton,  Lieut.  Colonel  21st  Conn.  Infantry. 


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♦Gilbert  M.  Stocking,  Private  20th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1865,  Jan.  25,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Heber  S.  Thompson,  Captain  7th  Penn.  Cavalry. 

John  C.  Tyler,  Major  and  A.  A.  G.,  U.  S.  V. 

John  R.  Webster,  Captain  and  A.  Q.  M.,  U.  S.  Y. 

James  H.  White,  Adjutant  165th  Penn.  Cavalry. 

Ralph  0.  Williams,  Private  7th  Del.  Infantry,  (30  days). 

♦George  Worman,  Private  137th  Ill.  Infantry. 

*1864,  Oct.  27,  Cahawba,  Ala. 

[Heman  P.  Babcock,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

Andrew  S.  Burt,  Captain  18th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

Walter  T.  Chester,  Captain  94th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Edward  Field,  (Coll.  N.  J.,  1861,)  Lieut.,  N.  J. 

♦Samuel  C.  Glenney,  Jr.,  Corporal  1st.  Conn.  Heavy  Artillery. 

*1862,  Sept.  15,  Phila.,  Penn. 

James  R.  Gould,  (Harvard,  1861.)  Captain  and  Additional  A.  D.  C.,  U.  S.  A. 
Horatio  Jenkins,  Jr.,  Colonel  4th  Mass.  Cavalry,  Brevet  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  Y. 
Oliver  A.  Roberts,  Sergeant  Major  50th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Thomas  Skelding,  Captain  10th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

♦William  J.  Temple,  Captain  17th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

*1863,  May  1,  Chanceliorsville,  Ya.] 

1862. 

A.  Egerton  Adams,  Captain  1st  N.  Y.  Mounted  Rifles. 

♦Tra  R.  Alexander,  Captain  16th  Penn.  Cavalry. 

*1863,  Nov.  29,  Mine  Run,  Ya. 

George  M.  Beard,  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon,  U.  S.  N. 

Jacob  S.  Bockee,  Captain  114th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Frank  H.  Bos  worth,  Private  18th  O.  Infantry. 

Isaac  Bowe,  Private  2d  Mass.  Heavy  Artillery. 

James  F.  Brown,  Lieut.  Colonel  21st  Conn.  Infantry. 

Buel  C.  Carter,  Captain  13th  N.  H.  Infantry,  Captain  and  A.  Q.  M.,  U.  S.  Y. 
Daniel  H.  Chamberlain,  1st  Lieut,  and  Adj.  5th  Mass.  Colored  Cavalry. 

James  A.  Dunbar,  Private  Penn.  Militia. 

Sherburne  B.  Eaton,  Capt.  124th  O.  Inf.,  Capt.  and  A.  A.  G.  on  Gen.  Hazen’s 
Staff. 

Charles  W.  Ely,  2d  Lieut.  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Richard  H.  Greene,  Private  7th  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 

Eben  T.  Hale,  Private  45th  Mass.  Infantry. 

♦William  W.  House,  Private  25th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1863,  July  24,  Baton  Rouge,  La. 

C.  Eustis  Hubbard,  Corporal  45th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Henry  P.  Johnston,  2d  Lieut.  15th  Conn.  Inf.  and  Acting  Signal  Officer. 

Thomas  B.  Kirby,  Major  44th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Cornelius  S.  Kitchel,  Private  136th  Penn.  Militia. 

Charles  H.  Lewis,  Corporal  16th  Conn.  Infantry,  Hospital  Steward  U.  S.  A. 
Walter  L.  McClintock,  Private  12th  Penn.  Infantry,  (Militia). 

William  R.  McCord,  1st  Lieut.  12th  Mo.  Cavalry. 

Franklin  McYeagh,  Penn.  Militia. 

7 


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Harrison  Maltzberger,  Captain  1 9 5tli  Penn.  Infantry. 

G-eorge  C.  Ripley,  1st  Lieut.  10th  Conn.  Inf.,  and  A.  D.  C.  General  Perry. 
Charles  H.  Rowe,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  18th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Albert  B.  Shearer,  Private  Penn.  Militia. 

*  Andrew  F.  Shiverick,  Captain  28tli  Wis.  Infantry. 

*1863,  April  22,  Memphis,  Tenn., 

*Richard  Skinner,  1st  Lieut.  10th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

*1864,  June  22,  near  Petersburg,  Va. 

*Francis  N.  Sterling,  1st  Lieut.  128th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Dec.  6,  at  sea,  off  Cape  Hatteras. 

Charles  B.  Sumner,  Sergeant  45th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Henry  W.  Thayer,  Lieut  14th  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

[William  W.  Ball,  (Williams  Coll.  1862,)  Hospital  Steward  25tli  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 
James  W.  Cuyler,  (West  Point,)  Captain  Engineer  Corps,  LJ.  S.  A. 

Henry  M.  Denniston,  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

Joseph  L.  Ferrell,  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  1ST. 

John  J.  Griffith,  Private  14th  N.  Y.  Infantry,  (3  months). 

*Daniel  E.  Hemenway,  Com’y  Sergeant  22d  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Nov.  21. 

William  B.  Lewis,  M.  D.,  A.  A..  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

*  William  McClurg,  Private  9th  Penn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Oct.  12,  Washington,  D.  C.,  (wounded  at  South  Mountain,  Ya.) 

*  William  H.  Miller,  Captain  44th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*1862,  April  30,  before  Yorktown,  Ya. 

Frank  Stanwood,  CaptaiD  3d  U.  S.  Cavalry  and  Brevet  Major. 

*Grosvenor  Starr,  Adjutant  1th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  March  5,  Tybee  Island,  S.  C. 

Edwin  Stewart,  Paymaster  U.  S.  N.] 

1863. 

George  W.  Allen,  A.  A.  Paymaster,  U.  S.  N. 

George  W.  Atherton,  Captain  10th  Conn.  Infantry. 

George  W.  Baird,  Colonel  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Edward  G.  Bishop.  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

Erastus  Blakeslee,  Colonel  1st  Conn.  Cavalry. 

*Harvey  H.  Bloom,  1st  Lieut.  5th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*1864,  March  18,  North  Norwich,  N.  Y. 

Cornelius  W.  Bull,  A.  A.  Paymaster,  U.  S.  N. 

John  H.  Butler,  Paymaster’s  Clerk  U.  S.  N. 

Leander  T.  Chamberlain,  A.  A.  Paymaster,  U.  S.  N. 

Rev.  John  B.  Doolittle,  Chaplain  15th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Thomas  A.  Emerson,  A.  A.  Paymaster,  U.  S.  N. 

Horace  W.  Fowler,  Capt.  16th  N.  Y.  Art.  and  on  Div.  Staff  Gen.  A.  H.  Terry. 
Henry  H.  Ingersoll,  7th  Ohio,  (3  months). 

Wilbur  Ives,  A.  A.  Paymaster,  U.  S.  N. 

Edward  L.  Keyes,  Lieut,  and  A.  D,  C.  Major  Gen.  E.  D.  Keyes. 

Lewis  A.  Stimson,  Lieut,  and  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  A.  H.  Terry. 

Henry  B.  Waterman,  Musician  134th  Ill.  Infantry. 


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*Charles  Webster,  Quartermaster’s  Clerk. 

*1865,  Aug.  11,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Joel  T.  Wildman,  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

Amos  Worman,  Private  137th  Ill.  Infantry. 

Thomas  Young,  Major  127th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

[William  H.  Alden,  Sergeant  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Samuel  Appleton,  1st  Lieut.  12th  Mass.  Inf.,  Capt.  on  Staff  of  G-en.  Abercrombie. 
Charles  J.  Arms,  Captain  20th  Conn.  Inf.,  on  Staff  of  Gen.  Harland. 

Howell  Atwater,  Captain  1st  Conn.  Cavalry. 

Theodore  C.  Bacon,  Captain  and  A.  A.  G.  to  Brig.  Gen.  Buford. 

Henry  N.  Beckwith,  Yt. 

Gerard  C.  Brown,  Captain  38th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Newton  DePorest,  Captain  2d  Wis.  Cavalry. 

Leonard  Fletcher,  Sergeant  77th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

William  G.  Grant,  Engineer  Corps. 

*F.  Kern  Heller,  Private  93d  Penn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  David’s  Island  Hospital,  N.  Y.,  (wounded  at  Fair  Oaks,  Ya.) 
Thomas  D.  Kimball,  Captain  51st  Mass.  Inf.,  and  2d  Mass.  Heavy  Artillery. 
*Zalmon  J.  McMaster,  Captain  5th  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

*Washington,  D.  C. 

*Frederic  W.  Matteson,  Lieut.  Colonel  64th  Illinois  Infantry. 

*1862,  Aug.  8,  Corinth,  Miss. 

Robert  C.  Morris,  Captain  Wis. 

Carroll  Neide,  Signal  Corps. 

Harry  L.  Orth,  Medical  Cadet. 

James  S.  Osgood,  25th  Mass.  Infantry. 

*Uriah  N.  Parmelee,  Captain  1st  Conn.  Cavalry. 

*1865,  April  1,  Five  Forks,  Ya. 

*Charles  A.  Partridge,  17th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*1865,  Jan.,  Warsaw,  N.  Y. 

Oliver  H.  Payne,  Lieut.  Colonel  124th  Ohio  Infantry. 

Madison  Sallade,  Private  93d  Penn.  Infantry. 

George  B  Sanford,  Captain  1st  U.  S.  Cavalry. 

William  F.  Smith,  Private  7th  Conn.  Infantrv. 

*  Arthur  DeN.  Talcott,  Private  16th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Dec.  3. 

Moses  H.  Tuttle,  Mass. 

Abram  G.  Yerplanck,  Captain  1st  U.  S.  Art.,  and  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  Barry. 

Stephen  Whitney,  1st  Lieut.  4th  U.  S.  Artillery. 

Myron  Winslow,  Sergeant,  N.  Y.  (3  months.) 

*Richard  K.  Woodruff,  Captain  31st  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

*1864,  Aug.  11,  David’s  Island  Hospital,  N.  Y.,  (wounded  at  Petersburg, 
Ya.)] 

1864. 

Albert  B.  Clarke,  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

Charles  W.  Fifield,  Private  18th  N.  H.  Infantry. 

Huntting  C.  Jessup,  2d  Lieut.  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

George  F.  Lewis,  Medical  Cadet  U.  S.  A. 


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Isaac  P.  Pugsley,  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

Henry  M.  Whitney,  Sergeant  Major  52d  Mass.  Infantry. 

[William  P.  Ames,  A.  A.  G. 

William  M.  Austin,  Medical  Cadet  U.  S.  A. 

Charles  H.  Conner,  Commissary  Department. 

George  P.  Davis,  Captain  42d  Mass.  Infantry. 

Thomas  Higgins,  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

William  A.  Kimball,  Captain  2d  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

Obadiah  M.  Knapp,  Captain  121st  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

*Garwood  R.  Merwin,  Sergeant  2d  Conn.  Heavy  Artillery. 

*1863,  Jan.  23,  Alexandria,  Ya. 

Matthew  M.  Miller,  Captain  5th  U.  S.  Colored  Artillery,  Col.  Mississippi  Militia. 
*Charles  C.  Mills,  Captain  1th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1865,  Jan.  29,  N.  Y.  City. 

Charles  B.  Parkman,  Private  20th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Thomas  A.  Porter,  Lieut.  1st  Del.  Battery. 

John  P.  Randall,  1st  Lieut.  21st  Conn.  Infantry. 

Henry  M.  Stille,  Medical  Cadet. 

*George  P.  Sylvester,  2d  Lieut  9th  New  Hampshire  Infantry. 

*1864,  June  5,  Washington,  D.  C.,  (wounded  at  “the  Wilderness,”  Ya.)  ] 

1865. 

Josiali  H.  Bissell,  2d  Lieut.  Bissell’s  Engineers,  M®.  Infantry. 

James  W.  Clarke,  Private,  Ohio. 

John  L.  Ewell,  Corporal  60th  Mass.  Infantry,  (100  days). 

Marshall  R.  Gaines,  Private  60th  Mass.  Infantry,  (100  days). 

Charles  H.  Gaylord,  Private  60th  Mass.  Infantry,  (100  days). 

Charles  H.  Leonard,  Private  45th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Payson  Merrill,  Private  60th  Mass.  Infantry,  (100  days). 

Charles  E.  Smith,  Private  60th  Mass.  Infantry,  (100  days). 

William  Stocking,  Private  60th  Mass.  Infantry  (100  days). 

George  E.  Treadwell,  Color  Corporal  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

[George  W.  Allen,  Captain  29th  Conn.  Colored  Infantry. 

*Franklin  E.  Ailing,  Corporal  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Dec.  13,  Fredericksburg,  Ya. 

*Edward  L.  Barnard,  Private  25th  Mass.  Infantry. 

*1862,  North  Carolina. 

Robert  E.  Grant,  Lieut. 

Charles  DeF.  Griffin. 

Edward  W.  Hayden,  Lieut.  Colonel  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

Romulus  C.  Loveridge,  Sergeant  2d  Conn.  Heavy  Artillery. 

Franklin  Miller. 

Albert  R.  Parsons,  5 2d  Ill.  Infantry. 

Henry  E.  Taintor. 

*John  H.  Thompson,  Sergeant  106th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

*1863,  March  16,  North  Mountain,  Ya. 

William  M.  Whitney,  Private  27tli  Conn.  Infantry. 

Jonathan  D.  Wood.] 


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1866. 

[James  Brand,  Sergeant  tli  Conn.  Infantry. 

Henry  Butler,  Private  44th  Mass  Infantry. 

Charles  B.  Evarts,  1st  Lieut.  1st  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

James  T.  Graves,  Corporal  52d  Mass.  Infantry. 

Charles  F.  Hartwell,  Acting  Master’s  Mate  U.  S.  N. 

Allen  M.  Hiller,  Lieut.  U.  S.  A. 

Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Jr.,  Capt.  2d  U.  S.  Col’d Infantry,  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  Newton.] 

1867. 

[Ira  S.  Dodd,  Sergeant,  26th  N.  J.  Infantry. 

George  Eastburn,  Corporal  11th  Penn.  Militia. 

Brown  H.  Emerson,  Private  Delaware  Infantry,  (100  days). 

Thomas  Greenwood,  Clerk  Commissary’s  Department. 

Thomas  Hedge,  2d  Lieut.  106th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Constant  R.  Marks,  Private  8th  Mass.  Infantry. 

*Edwin  C.  Pratt,  2d  Lieut.  8th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 

*1865,  July  1,  New  Hartford,  Conn. 

Benjamin  Smith,  Private  45th  Penn.  Infantry. 

Franklin  M.  Sprague,  Captain  11th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Charles  S:  "Walker,  Private  137th  Ohio  Infantry.] 

1868. 

[Russell  W.  Ayres,  Corporal  23d  Conn.  Infantry. 

George  D.  Ballantine,  Private  193d  Penn.  Infantry. 

William  H.  Birney,  Private  22d  Conn.  Infantry. 

John  Coats,  Corporal  22d  Conn.  Infantry. 

John  K.  IT.  DeForest,  Private  28th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Benjamin  A.  Fowler,  Private  50th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Loren  L.  Hicks,  Private  51st  Mass.  Infantry. 

Beach  Hill,  Private  23d  Conn.  Infantry. 

George  H.  Lewis,  Private  14th  Conn.  Infantry. 

John  Lewis,  Sergeant  22d  Conn.  Infantry. 

Stephen  Pierson,  Adjutant  33d  N.  J.  Infantry. 

Thomas  H.  Robbins,  Corporal  25th  Conn.  Infantrj*. 

Frederick  W.  Russell,  Hospital  Corps  U.  S.  A. 

Joseph  H.  Sears,  Private  6th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Nathaniel  P.  S.  Thomas,  Commodore’s  Aid,  U.  S.  N. 

*Henry  S.  Timmerman,  Private  74th  N.  Y.  Infantry,  (3  months). 

*1865,  Oct.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Henry  P.  Wright,  Sergeant  51st  Mass.  Infantry.] 

THEOLOGICAL  DEPARTMENT. 

1840. 

*Rev.  James  Averill,  (Amh.  College,  1837,)  Chaplain  23d  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1863,  June  11,  Lafourche,  La. 

1842. 

Rev.  Cyrus  Brewster,  Hospital  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 


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1844. 

*Rev.  John  S.  Whittlesey,  Chaplain  11th  Iowa  Infantry. 

*1862,  April,  Durant,  Iowa. 

1847. 

Rev.  John  D.  Sands,  Chaplain,  Iowa. 

1857. 

*Rev.  Jacob  Eaton;  Chaplain  7  th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1865,  March  20,  Wilmington,  N.  C. 

1858. 

Rev.  Alvah  L.  Frisbie,  (Amherst  College,  1851,)  Chaplain  20th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1862. 

Rev.  James  H.  Bradford,  Chaplain  12th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Leicester  J.  Sawyer,  Private  27  th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1863. 

Rev.  John  D.  Jones,  (Hamilton  College,  1861,)  Chaplain  117th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 
Rev.  Selali  Merrill,  Chaplain  49th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry. 


LAW  DEPARTMENT. 

1830. 

[*  James  S.  Wadsworth,  Brig.  General  U.  S.  Y. 

*1864,  May  8,  “  the  Wilderness,”  Ya.] 

1846. 

William  B.  Wooster,  Colonel  29th  Conn.  Colored  Infantry. 

1848. 

Dexter  R.  Wright,  (Wesleyan  University,  1845,)  Colonel  15th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1849. 

[Alfred  H.  Terry,  Col.  7th  Conn.  Inf.,  Brig.  Gen.  U.  S.  A.,  Major  General  U.  S.  Y.] 

1853. 

Nathan  Upham. 

[Nathaniel  Smith,  Lieut.  Colonel  2d  Conn.  Heavy  Artillery.] 

1859. 

[Richard  H.  Chittenden,  Captain,  Minnesota. 

*William  McC.  Smith,  2d  Lieut.  132d  N.  Y.  Infantry.] 

*1865,  March  24,  San  Francisco,  Cal.] 

1860. 

H.  Lynde  Harrison,  Quartermaster  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Thomas  H.  Merry,  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

William  C.  Page,  Hospital  Steward,  5th  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

[* William  Silliman,  Captain  124th  N.  Y.  Infantry,  Colonel  26th  U.  S.  Col’d  Inf. 
*1864,  Dec.  17,  Beaufort,  S.  C.] 


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1861. 

Timothy  F.  Neville,  R.  I.  Cavalry. 

[*Edwin  B.  Cross,  2d  Lieut.  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 
*1863,  Aug.  1,  New  Haven,  Conn] 

1862. 

Samuel  T.  Birdsall,  Captain  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1863. 

Joseph  Gr.  Morton,  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

Lucius  B.  Tuttle,  A.  A.  Paymaster  U.  S.  N. 

1864. 

Isaac  W.  Cooke,  Sergeant  3d  Conn.  Infantry 
DeWitt  C.  Sprague,  1st  Lieut.  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 
[William  E.  Simonds,  2d  Lieut.  25th  Conn.  Infantry.] 

1865. 

Silas  W.  Geis,  Penn.  Militia. 


MEDICAL  DEPARTMENT. 

1815. 

Prof.  Jared  P.  Kirtland,  LL.  D.,  Examining  Surgeon,  Ohio. 

1817. 

*Melinus  C.  Leavenworth,  Assistant  Surgeon  12th  Conn.  Infantry. 
*1862,  Nov.  16,  near  New  Orleans,  La. 

1829. 

James  B.  Coleman,  Brigade  Surgeon. 

Horace  C.  Gillette,  Surgeon. 

1831. 

Alexander  LeB.  Monroe,  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon,  U.  S.  V. 

Richard  H.  Salter,  Surgeon  1st  Mass.  Infantry. 

1836. 

Michael  D.  Benedict,  Surgeon  7  5th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Benjamin  F.  Harrison,  Surgeon  Independent  Battalion  N.  Y.  Infantry, 
Henry  W.  Hough,  Assistant  Surgeon  18th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1840. 

Prof.  Pliny  A.  Jewett,  (Trinity  College,  1837,)  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 

1844. 

Edwin  C.  Bidwell,  (Williams  Coll.,  1841,)  Surgeon  31st  Mass.  Infantry. 
Henry  LeW.  Burritt,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 

1845. 

William  H.  Rossell,  Captain  10th  U.  S.  Infantry. 


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1846. 

Josiah  M.  Beecher,  Private  1st  Conn.  Artillery. 

*DeWitt  C.  Lathrop,  Assistant  Surgeon  8th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  April  18,  Newbern,  N.  C. 

1849. 

Moses  H.  Perkins,  Assistant  Surgeon  15th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1851. 

Orlando  Brown,  Surgeon  29th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Francis  C.  Greene,  Assistant  Surgeon  30th  Mass.  Infantry. 

Robert  Hubbard,  Surgeon  17th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Matthew  T.  Newton,  Surgeon  10th  Conn.  Infantry. 

William  Soule,  Surgeon  21st  Conn.  Infantry. 

1853. 

Prof.  Francis  Bacon,  Surgeon  7th  Conn.  Infantry,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 
*Ransom  P.  Lyon,  Surgeon  28th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1863,  Aug.  6,  Port  Hudson,  La. 

1854. 

Horatio  N.  Howard,  Assistant  Surgeon  10th  Me.  Infantry. 

1855. 

Edwin  G.  Sumner,  Assistant  Surgeon  21st  Conn.  Infantry. 

William  H.  Trowbridge,  Surgeon  23d  Conn.  Infantry. 

1856. 

Edward  Bulkley,  Assistant  Surgeon  6th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Elijah  Gregory,  Assistant  Surgeon  17th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Samuel  B.  Shepard,  Assistant  Surgeon  7th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1857. 

George  Clary,  (Dartmouth  College,  1852,)  Surgeon  13th  Conn.  Infantry. 
Cortlandt  Y  R.  Creed,  Assistant  Surgeon  30th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Ozias  W.  Peck,  A.  A.  Surgeon. 

Samuel  R.  Wooster,  Assistant  Surgeon  8th  Mich.  Infantry. 

1859. 

Frederick  L.  Dibble,  Surgeon  6th  Conn.  Infantry. 

John  W.  Lawton,  Assistant  Surgeon  2d  Conn.  Artillery. 

J.  Hamilton  Lee,  Surgeon  21st  Conn.  Infantry. 

1860. 

*Lewis  H.  Ailing,  Surgeon. 

David  C.  Aney. 

Abel  C.  Benedict,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 

Evelyn  L.  Bissell,  Surgeon  5th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Nelson  G.  Hall,  Surgeon. 

Aaron  S.  Oberly,  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

*John  B.  Welch,  Assistant  Surgeon  12th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*1862,  Feb.  13. 


97 


1861. 

George  W.  Avery,  Assistant  Surgeon  9tli  Conn  Inf.,  Surg.  1st  N.  0.  Yols. 
Neilson  A.  Baldwin,  (Lafayette  College,)  Surgeon  17 3d  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

James  A.  Bigelow,  Surgeon  8th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Elmore  0.  Hine,  Assistant  Surgpon  7  th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Henry  A.  Hoyt,  Assistant  Surgeon  6th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Joel  W.  Hyde,  Ass’t  Surgeon  29th  Conn.  Infantry,  A.  A.  A.  G.  and  Judge  Adv. 
Samuel  McClellan,  Assistant  Surgeoh  13th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Samuel  H.  Olrhstead,  Surgeon  170th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Henry  Plumb,  Surgeon  2d  Conn.  Artillery. 

Horace  P.  Porter,  Surgeon  10th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Ebenezer  Witter,  Hospital  Steward  1st  Conn.  Cavalry. 

1862. 

Frederick  A.  Dudley,  Surgeon  14th  Conn.  Infantry. 

*Nathaniel  W.  French,  Assistant  Surgeon  50th  Mass.  Infantry. 

*1863,  April  21,  Baton  Rouge,  La. 

Robert  G.  Hassard,  Assistant  Surgeon  2d  Conn.  Artillery. 

Jairus  F.  Lines,  Assistant  Surgeon  12th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Rollin  McNeil,  Surgeon  9th  Conn.  Infantry. 

J.  Wadsworth  Terry,  Surgeon  20th  Conn.  Infantry. 

William  H.  Thomson. 

1863. 

Thomas  M.  Hills,  Assistant  Surgeon  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

William  C.  Minor,  A.  A.  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

Charles  J.  Tennant,  Assist.  Surg.  21st  Conn.  Inf. 

Frederick  S.  Treadway,  Assist.  Surg.  27th  Conn,  and  75th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 
Charles  S.  Ward,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

1864. 

Augustus  H.  Abernethy,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  N. 

J.  Knight  Bacon,  A.  A.  Surgeon,  U.  S.  N. 

John  D.  Brundage. 

Durell  Shepard,  Private  1st  Conn.  Heavy  Artillery. 

Henry  S.  Turrill,  Assistant  Surgeon  17th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1865. 

Herbert  M.  Bishop,  Assistant  Surgeon  1st  Conn.  Cavalry. 

George  B.  Durrie,  Corporal  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Malcolm  Macfarlan,  Medical  Cadet  U.  S.  A. 

Henry  A.  Page,  Assistant  Surgeon  10th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1866-7. 

[Rev.  Thomas  Drumm,  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

Cornelius  J.  DuBois,  Captain  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

Thomas  T.  Minor,  A.  A.  Surgeon,  U.  S.  A.] 

8 


98 


DEPARTMENT  OF  PHILOSOPHY  AND  THE  ARTS. 

1836. 

/ 

[W.  McKee  Dunn,  Major  and  Judge  Advocate,  U.  S.  V.] 

1843. 

[Charles  H.  Rockwell,  Captain  and  A.  Q.  M.  U.  S.  V.] 

1850. 

[William  S.  Hillyer,  Col.  and  A.  D.  C.  Gen.  Grant.] 

1852. 

Mason  C.  Weld,  Lieut.  Colonel  25th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1853. 

Benjamin  C.  Jillson,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 

1854. 

*John  A.  Duvillard,  1st  Lieut.  12th  U.  S.  Infantry. 

*1865,  May  8,  Fort  Hamilton,  N.  Y. 

1855. 

[Lewis  M.  Dayton,  Brig.  Gen.  and  A.  A.  G.  on  Gen.  Sherman’s  Staff. 

William  C.  Gilman,  Private  22d  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 

Prof.  Charles  H.  Porter,  M.  D.,  Surg.  U.  S.  V.] 

1858. 

John  D.  Wheeler,  Captain  15th  Conn.  Infantry. 

[* Arthur  II.  Dutton,  (West  Point,  1861,)  Col.  21st  Ct.  Inf.,  Capt.  Engineers  U.  S.  A. 
*1864,  June  5.  Baltimore,  Md.,  (wounded  at  Bermuda  Hundred).] 

1859. 

Henry  A.  DuBois,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

S.  Douglas  Twining,  M.  D.,  A.  A.  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 

1860. 

Clifford  Coddington,  Captain  51st  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

Edwin  Hutchinson,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  137th  N.  Y.  Inf.,  Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  Y. 
Joseph  A.  Rogers,  Private  27th  Conn.  Infantry. 

1861. 

Carrington  H.  Raymond,  Major  and  A.  A.  G.,  U.  S.  Y. 

[Hezekiah  Bissell,  Lieut.  Conn.  Infantry.] 

1862. 

[*Henry  Y.  D.  Stone,  Lieut.  2d  Mass.  Infantry. 

*1863,  July  3,  Gettysburg,  Penn. 

William  F.  West,  Captain  N.  Y.  (Ironsides).] 

1864. 

Henry  D.  Tiffany,  Private  7th  N.  Y.  S.  N.  G.  (30  days.) 

Arthur  Yan  Harlingen,  Penn.  Militia,  (30  days). 

[Eugene  S.  Bristol,  1st  Lieut.  29th  Conn.  Colored  Infantry. 


99 


\ 


*Nathan  L.  C.  Brown,  Private  44th  Mass.  Infantry. 

*1863,  Aug.  6,  Boston,  Mass. 

Henry  S.  Manning,  Lieut.  Colored  Cavalry. 

Martin  Van  Harlingen,  Penn.  Militia,  (30  days).] 

1805* 

James  B.  Stone,  Musician  N.  J.  Infantry. 

John  H.  Treadwell,  Ensign  U.  S.  N. 

1866-8. 

[Yolney  G-.  Barbour,  Corporal  5th  Conn.  Infantry. 
Herbert  C.  Belden,  Private  Mass.  Infantry. 

Robert  L.  Crooke,  Private,  N.  Y. 

Dudley  C.  Haskell,  Private,  Kansas. 

James  A.  McDonald,  Private  3 1th  N.  Y.  Infantry. 
George  B.  Pumpelly,  Private  Berdan’s  Sharpshooters. 
Joseph  P.  Rockwell,  Captain  18th  Conn.  Infantry.] 


•  •  • 


Of  those  serving  in  other  than  a  military  or  naval  position,  (whose  names,  if 
added,  would  sensibly  increase  the  above  list,)  the  three  following,  who  sacrificed 
their  lives  in  the  discharge  of  duty,  especially  deserve  commemoration. 

ACADEMICAL  DEPARTMENT. 

1847. 

*Prof.  Henry  H.  Hadley,  Sanitary  Commission, 

*1864,  Aug.  1,  Washington,  D.  C. 

1859. 

*Daniel  Bowe,  Boston  Educational  Commission, 

*1862,  Oct.  30,  Hew  York  City. 

1864. 

*Daniel  L.  Coit,  Sanitary  Commission, 

*1865,  June  1,  Norwich,  Conn. 


Of  the  whole  number  of  deaths  thus  far  recorded,  (109),  it  is  believed  that  at  least 
106  were  the  direct  results  of  active  service. 


SUMMARY. 


-♦*< 


Graduates. 


Living. 

Dead. 

Total. 

Academical  Department,  _____ 

396 

58 

454 

Theological  “  _ 

7 

3 

10 

Law  “  _____ 

13 

13 

Medical  “  _  _  _  _ 

_  56 

4 

60 

Philosophical  “  _  _  _  ■•  _ 

13 

1 

14 

Graduates, 

485 

66 

551 

Non-Graduates. 

Academical  Department,  _____ 

142 

33 

175 

Law  “  _ 

4 

4 

8 

Medical  “  _____ 

3 

3 

Philosophical  “  _  _  _ 

_  18 

/ 

3 

21 

Non-graduates, 

167 

40 

207 

Total,  including  graduates  and  non-graduates. 

758 

ADDITIONS  AND  CORRECTIONS. 

p.  12,  bottom  line,  for  Matthew  Grant,  read  Noah  Grant, 
p.  81,  Class  of  1851,  David  B.  Greene,  add 
*  1863,  Jan.  11,  Arkansas  Post, 
p.  81,  Class  of  1852,  George  S.  Mygatt,  add 
*1866,  Jan.  3,  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
p.  84,  Class  of  1856,  Horton  R.  Platt,  add 

1st  Lient.  6th  New  York  State  Heavy  Artillery. 

*1864,  May  23,  Spottsylvania  Court  House,  Va. 
p.  84.  Class  of  1857,  insert 

Rev.  Charles  B.  Dye,  Paymaster  and  Chaplain,  U.  S.  N. 


IIsTDEiX: 


TO 


THE  ROLL  OF  HONOR. 


Members  of  the  Theological ,  Law ,  Medical,  and  Philosophical  Departments  are 
denoted  by  the  letters  t,  l,  m,  and  p,  respectively. 

All  non-graduates  appear  in  brackets. 


1835  Abbott,  Josiah 

1864  Abernethy,  A.  H.  m 

1825  John  J. 

1862  Adams,  A.  Egerton 

1849  Enoch  G. 

1821  John  R. 

1863  [Alden,  William  H.] 

1854  Alexander,  Chas.  T. 

1862  Ira  R. 

1855  Allen,  Charles  J.  F. 

1863  George  W. 

1865  [  George  W.] 

1865  [Ailing,  Franklin  E.] 
1860  Lewis  H.  m 

1864  [Ames,  William  P.] 
1855  Andrews,  Judson  B. 
1860  Aney,  David  C.  m 
1863  [Appleton,  Samuel] 
1863  Arms,  Charles  J.] 
1849  Arnold,  Edward  A. 

1860  George  W. 
1863  Atherton,  George  W. 
1851  Atlee,  William  A. 

1863  [Atwater,  Howell] 

1864  'Austin,  William  M.] 
1840  Averill,  James  t 

1861  Avery,  George  W.  m 

1855  William  L. 

1868  [Ayres,  Russell  W.] 
1861  [Babcock,  Heman  P.] 
1832  Backus,  William  W. 
1853  Bacon,  Francis  m 
1864  J.  Knight  m 

1853  Theodore 

1863  [  Theodore  C.] 

1858  William  P. 

1859  [Badger,  George] 

1859  William] 

1853  Baer,  Benjamin  F. 


1863  Baird,  George  W. 

1850  Baldwin,  A.  DeWitt 

1809  Burr 

1853  George  W. 

1861  NeilsonA.m 

1862  [Ball,  William  W.] 
1868  Ballantine,  Geo.  D.] 

1852  Bannan,  Douglass 

1861  John  N. 

1866  [Barbour, Yoln’yG.]jo 

1865  [Barnard,  Edward  L.] 
1860  Barnes,  Henry  E. 

1851  Barrows,  Edwin 
1856  Bartholomew,  Nelson 
1833  Bates,  Samuel  H. 

1862  Beard,  George  M. 

1863  [Beckwith,  HenryN.] 

1846  Beecher,  Josiah  H.  m 
1849  Sheldon  C. 

1866  [Belden,  HerbertC.R 

1851  Theodore  W.E. 

1855  [Bemis. Frederick  A.] 

1860  Benedict,  Abel  C.  m 

1849  George 

1836  Michael  D.m 

1836  [Benliam,  Henry  W.] 
1858  Bennett,  William  C. 
1844  Bidwell,  Edwin  C.  m 

1861  Bigelow,  James  A.  m 

1862  Birdsall,  Samuel  T.  I 

1841  [Birney,  William] 
1868  [  William  H.] 

1853  Bishop,  Albert  W. 

1863  Edward  G. 

1865  Herbert  M.  m 

1860  Bissell,  Evelyn  L.  m 
1865  Josiah  H. 

1841  [Blair,  Francis  P.] 
1858  Blake,  Edward  F. 


1863  Blakeslee,  Erastus 

1852  Bliss,  Charles  M. 

1863  Bloom,  Harvey  II. 

1859  Boardman,  Charles  H. 
1862  Bockee,  Jacob  S. 

1861  Bonney,  George  B. 

1862  Bosworth,Francke  H. 
1862  Bowe,  Isaac 

1821  Boyd,  John 

1862  Bradford,  James  H.  t 

1860  Bradley,  William  E. 

1860  W.  Lockwood 

1859  Brainerd,  Thomas  C. 
1866  [Brand,  James] 

1859  Breed,  Henry  L. 

1842  Brewster,  Cyrus  t 
1858  BrintOn,  Daniel  G. 
1844  John  F. 

1854  Bristol,  Bennett  J. 

1864  [  Eugene  S.]j? 

1860  Bristoll,  William  M. 

1853  [Bromley,  Isaac  H.] 

1863  Brown,  Gerard  C.] 

1861  Hubert  S. 

1862  James  F. 

1856  John  M. 

1864  [  Nath.  L.C.]y> 

1851  Orlando  m 

1858  Orlando 

1860  Richard  B. 

1859  [Brooks,  William  P.] 
1864  Brundage,  John  D.  m 
1850  Brush,  William 
1858  [Buckelew,  Fred.  L.] 
1856  Bulkeley,  Charles  E. 
1856  Bulkley,  Edward  m 

1861  Milton 

1 863  Bull,  Cornelius  W. 

1855  Bumstead,  Nath’l.  W. 


4 


102 


1858  [Burlock,  Fred’k  F.] 

1854  Burnham,  JedidiahK. 

1853  Burr,  Hudson 

1844  Burritt,  H’y  LeW.  m 

1861  [Burt,  Andrew  S.] 

1859  Pitts  H. 

1857  Butler,  Francis  E. 

1866  [  Henry] 

1863  John  H. 

1858  Caldwell,  Samuel 

1860  Camp,  Henry  W. 

1859  Carrington,  Edward 

1845  Henry  B. 

1862  Carter,  Buel  C. 

1833  Carver,  Robert 

1846  Case,  Henry 

1859  Catlin,  Benjamin  S. 

1860  George  L. 

1858  Chalmers,  Matthew 

1862  Chamberlain,Dan’lH. 

1863  LeanderT. 

1861  Robert  L. 
1857  Chamberlin,  Myron N 

1862  Chapin,  Lebeus  C. 

1846  Chester,  George  E. 
1861  [  Walter  T.] 

1855  Chittenden,  Henry  T. 

1859  [  Rich’d II.]  I 

1857  Christman,  Joseph  A. 
1842  Clapp,  Alexander  H. 
1859  [Clark,  Thomas  R..] 
1861  William  B. 

1864  Clarke,  Albert  B. 

1855  I.  Edwards 

1854  J.  Tillotson 

1865  James  W. 
1857  Clary,  George  m 
1832  Clay,  Cassius  M. 

1859  Green 
1868  [Coats,  John] 

1860  Coddington,  Clifford^? 
1829  Cogswell,  Mason  F. 

1828  Coit,  Gurdon  S. 

1829  Coleman,  James  B.  m 

1860  Colton,  Frederick  H. 
1859  Comstock,  Apollos 

1856  Condi t,  Stephen 

1855  Cone,  Elijah 

1864  [Conner,  Charles  H.] 

1846  Conyngham,  John  B. 

1861  Cook,  William 
1864  Cooke,  Isaac  W.  I 

1847  Coon,  John 
1852  Cooper,  Jacob 
1839  [Cowles,  David  S.] 

1856  Edward  O. 

1835  Cox,  Christopher  C. 
1851  Crampton,  Rufus  C. 
1844  Crane,  Charles  H. 
1838  James  B, 

1857  Creed,  Cortl’dt  V.R.m 


1866  [Crooke,  Robert  L.] 

1861  Cross,  Edwin  B.]  I 
1857  Croxton,  John  T. 
1840  Curtis,  Josiah 

1854  Cutler,  Carroll 

1862  [Cuvier,  James  W.] 
1838  Dana,  Edmund  L. 

1859  Darrach,  William  B. 

1864  [Davis,  George  P.] 

1860  [  Samuel  H.] 

1855  [Dayton,  Lewis  M  ]  p 

1857  DeForest.  Henry  S. 
1868  [  John  K.  II.] 

1861  Moulton 

1863  [  Newton] 

1847  Othniel 

1861  Delp,  George 
1836  Doming,  Henry  C. 

1862  [Dennistou,  Hen.  M.] 

1856  James  0. 

1853  Wm.  S. 

1859  Dibble,  Fred’k  L.  m 
1843  Dill,  James  H. 

1835  Dimon,  Theodore 
1833  Doane,  Hiram 

1867  [Dodd,  Ira  S.] 

1860  [Dodge,  Charles  C.] 

1835  John  Y. 

1840  Richard  Y. 

1863  Doolittle,  John  B. 

1857  Doster,  William  E. 
1849  Douglas,  George 
1857  Drake,  Albert  W. 
1866  [Drumm,  Thomas]  m 

1866  [DuBois,  Corn.  J."  m 

1859  Henry  A.  p 

1852  John  C. 

1862  Dudley.  Fred’k  A.  m 

1857  Duer,  Edward  L. 
1862  Dunbar.  James  A. 

1836  [Dunn,  W.  McKee]  p 
1832  Dunning,  Edward  O. 

1865  Durrie,  George  B.  m 

1858  [Dutton,  Arth’rH.]j9 

1860  Clarence  E. 

1857  Henry  M. 

1854  Duvillard,  John  A.  p 

1854  [Dwight,  Aug.  W.] 
1852  James  H. 

1859  Thomas  B. 
1857  Dye,  Charles  B. 

1867  [Eastburn,  George] 
1854  Eastman,  William  R. 

1860  Eaton,  Daniel  C. 

1857  Jacob  t 

1842  Samuel  W. 

1862  Sherburne  B. 

1814  Edwards,  David  S. 

1861  Egleston,  William  C. 
1852  Elderkin,  John 
1836  Ellsworth,  Pinck’yW 


1862  Ely,  Charles  W. 

1843  Isaac  M. 

1867  [Emerson,  Brown  H.] 

1863  Thomas  A. 

1851  Estabrook,  James  A. 

1852  [Este,  William  M.] 
1866  [Evarts,  Charles  B.] 
1865  Ewell,  John  L. 

1855  Ewing,  Martin  B. 

1850  Farnham,  William  T. 
1859  Faulkner,  Lester  B. 

1861  Faxon,  William  C. 

1856  Fellowes,  Frank 

1862  [Ferrell,  Joseph  L.] 

1859  [Ferris,  George  T.] 

1844  Ferry,  Orris  S. 

1861  [Field,  Edward] 

1864  Fifield,  Charles  W. 

1860  Finney,  Edgar  A. 
1859  Fisher,  George] 

1859  [Fitzhugh,  Cha’s  L.] 

1861  Robert  H. 

1863  [Fletcher,  Leonard] 

1861  Flint,  Joseph  N. 

1844  Foote,  Tliaddeus 

1859  [Fosdick,  Wood] 

1860  Foster,  William  E. 

1868  [Fowler,  BenjaminA.] 

1863  Horace  W. 

1860  William 

1847  Franklin,  Emlen 
1858  George  M. 

1862  French,  Nath’l  W.  m 
1858  Frisbie.  Alvah  L.  t 
1860  Furbish,  Edward  B. 

1865  Gaines,  Marshall  R. 
1858  Gerrard.  Jeptha 
1860  Gaul,  Edward  L. 
1865  Gaylord,  Charles  H. 
1865  Geis,  Silas  W.  I 

1860  Giddings,  George  W. 
1 843  [Gilbert,  Charles  C.] 
1829  Gillette,  Horace  C.  m 

1855  [Gilman, William  C .~\p 

1861  [Glenney,  Samuel  0.] 

1861  [Gould,  James  R.] 

1857  Grant,  James  H. 

1838  Joel 

1865  Robert  E.] 

1863  ’  William  G.] 

1866  "Graves,  James  T.] 
1860  Green,  George  W.] 

1851  Greene,  David  B.] 

1851  Francis  C.w 

1853  Jeremiah  E. 

1862  Richard  H. 

1867  [Greenwood,  Tlios.] 

1856  Gregory,  Elijah  m 
1865  [Griffin,  Chas.  DeF.] 
1862  Griffith,  John  IT.] 

1852  Griswold,  Charles  A. 


103 


1857  Griswold,  John 

1844  Wait  R. 

1852  Grube,  Franklin 
1860  Haight.  David  L. 
1862  Hale,  Eben  T. 

1860  Hall,  Henry  L. 

1860  Nelson  G.  m 

1859  William  K. 

1859  [Hamilton,  Frank  B.] 

1850  Hand,  Chauncey  M. 

1859  Hannahs,  Dio  date  C. 

1861  Haradon,  Amasa  F. 

1853  Harland,  Edward 

1851  Harlow,  William  T. 
1855  Harmar,  Josiah  W. 

1845  Harrington,  Geo.  D. 

1836  Harrison,  Beuj.  F.  m 

1860  H.  Lynde  l 
1866  [Hartwell,  Chas.  F.] 

1866  [Haskell,  Dud’y  C.]  p 

1862  Hassard,  Robt.  G.  m 
1851  Hastings,  George  G. 

1859  Hatch,  Charles  H. 

1837  Hawley,  James  A. 

1 833  Zerah  K. 

1865  [Hayden,  Edw’d  W.] 
1851  Hayes,  Charles  G. 

1858  [Hayner,  Herrick] 
1840  Head,  John  F. 

1855  [Heath,  William  S.] 

1860  llebard,  Daniel 

1867  [Hedge,  Thomas] 

1863  [Heller,  F.  Kern] 

1862  [Hemenway,  Dan.E.] 

1860  [Hervey,  James  W.] 
1857  Hickox,  Yolney 

1868  [Hicks,  Loren  L.] 

1861  Higbee,  William  H. 
1861  Higgins,  Anthony 

1864  [  Thomas] 

1868  [Hill,  Beach] 

1866  [Hiller,  Allen  M.] 

1863  Hills,  Thomas  M.  m 
1850  [Hillyer,  Wm.  S.]  p 

1859  Hinckley,  Edward  S. 

1859  Henry  R. 

1861  Hine,  Elmore  C.  m 

1854  Hitchcock,  Elizur 

1848  Henry 

1857  Holden,  Stephen. 

1853  Holmes.  Theodore  J. 
1850  Horton,  Benjamin  J. 
1836  Hough,  Henry  W.  m 

1862  House,  William  W. 

1855  Howard,  Hiram  L 

1854  Horatio  N.  m 

1860  John 
1854  Howland,  Henry  E. 

1861  Hoyt,  Henry  A  m 

1862  Hubbard,  C.  Eustis 

1843  Joseph  S 


1851  Hubbard,  Robert  m 
1855  VanBuren 

1858  Hubbell,  William  S 
1853  Hudson,  William  M. 

1859  [Hu  ggins,  Edwd.  C.] 

1843  Huntington,  Cyrus 
1855  David  L 

1843  John  M. 

1818  Hurlbut,  Joseph 

1860  '  Wm.  H. 
1849  Hutchins,  Charles  J. 

1860  Hutchinson,  Edwin  p 

1861  Hyde,  James  N. 

1861  Joel  W.  m 

1855  Simeon  T. 
1863  Ingersoll  Henry  H. 

1858  Ingerson,  William  F. 
1861  Ives,  Bray  ton 

1863  Wilbur 
1857  Jackson,  Joseph  C. 
1840  James,  Horace 

1861  [Jenkins,  Horatio] 

1864  Jessup,  Huntting  C. 

1860  [  Samuel] 

1849  William  H. 

1840  Jewett,  Pliny  A.  m 
1853  Jillson,  Benj.  C.  p 
1860  Johnson,  Henry  L. 

1862  Johnston,  Henry  P. 

1860  William  C. 

1859  Jones,  Frank  J. 

1823*  George 

1 853  John  A.  W. 

1863  John  D.  t 

1861  Walter  F. 

1838  Key,  Thomas  M. 

1863  Keyes,  Edward  L 

1863  [Kimball,  Tho’s  D.] 

1864  William  A.] 

1861  Kinney,  John  C 

1862  Kirby,  Thomas  B. 
1815  Kirtland,  Jared  P.  m 
1862  Kitchel,  Cornelius  L. 

1856  Ivittredge,  William  T. 

1864  [Knapp,  Obadiah  M.] 
1847  Kutz,  Henry  C. 

1842  Darned,  Sylvester 
1846  Lathrop,  DeWitt  C.m 

1854  [Latimer,  C.  Clinton] 
1859  Lawton,  John  W.  m 

1857  Learned,  Bela  P. 
1817  Leavenworth, M.  C.m 
1859  Lee,  J.  Hamilton  m 

1865  Leonard,  Charles  IP. 

1862  Lewis,  Charles  H. 

1864  George  F. 

1868  George  H.] 

1868  John] 

1862  William  B  ] 

1862  Lines,  Jairus  F.  m 
1854  Lord,  George  DeF. 


1859  Lounsbury,  Thos.  R. 

1865  [Love ridge,  R.  C.] 
1859  "Lusk,  William  T  ] 
1859  Lyman,  Charles  N. 

1855  Lyon,  Alex’r  McD. 

1861  Isaac  S. 

1853  Ransom  P.  m 
1861  McClellan,  Samuel  m 

1861  McClintock.  Oliver 

1862  Walter  L. 
1862  [McClurg,  William] 

1854  [McConihe,  John] 

1862  McCord,  William  R. 
1852  McCormick,  Henry 

1866  [McDonald,  Jas.A.]y> 

1858  McDowell,  Wm.  A. 
1865  Macfarlan, Malcolm  m 

1856  Mclntire,  Henry  M. 

1859  [McKibbin,  Rob’t  P.] 
1861  McKinney,  Edw’d  P. 

1861  McLane,  James  W. 
1839  [McLellan,  Fran.  M.] 

1863  [McMasterZalmonJ.] 

1859  McMurtrie,  Rudolph 

1852  [McNeil,  H  Watson] 

1862  Rollin  m 
1862  McVeagh,  Franklin 

1853  Wayne 

1858  Magill,  William  A. 
1850  Mallery,  Garrick 

1862  Maltzberger, Harrison 

1864  [Manning, Henry  S.]p 
1850  Manross,  Newton  S. 

1867  [Marks,  Constant  R.] 
1845  Marsh,  John  T. 

1860  Marshall,  Henry  G. 

1857  James 

1861  John  E. 

1859  Mather,  William  IL. 

1858  Mathewson,  Arthur 

1863  [Matteson,  Fred.  W.] 
1856  [Mead,  Daniel  M.] 

1859  [Meconkey,  Elb.  F.] 

1861  Merrill,  Charles  G.  G. 

1865  Pay son 

1863  Selah  t 
1844  Merritt,  Joseph  K. 

1860  Merry,  Thomas  H.  I 

1864  [Merwin,GarwoodR.] 
1856  [  Samuel  T.  C.] 

1858  Miles,  Daniel  A. 

1865  [Miller,  Frankliu] 

1864  Matthew  M.] 

1862  William  H.] 

1864  Mills,  Charles  C.] 
1856  Lewis  E. 

1866  [Minor,  Thomas  T.]to 

1863  William  C.  m 

1854  [Mitchell,  Alfred] 
1831  Monroe,  Alex.LeB.  m 

1859  Moore,  John  C.  W. 


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1838  [Morris,  Dwight] 

1860  John  M. 

1858  Robert 

1863  [  Robert  C.] 

1863  Morton,  Joseph  GT.  I 
1856  [Moulthrop,  Sid’yA.] 

1859  [Moulton,  Daniel  S.] 
1850  Muhlenberg,  Edward 

1850  Mulford,  Sylvanus  S. 
1852  Mygatt,  George  S. 
1S63  [Neide,  Carroll] 

1858  Horace 
1856  Nettleton,  Edward  P. 

1861  Neville,  Timothy  F.  I 

1831  Newell,  Chester 

1859  Newton,  Homer  G. 

1818  Joel  W. 

1852  Matth.  T.  m 

1853  Nicholas,  Thomas  P. 
1825  Nichols,  Joseph  H. 
1859  [Nicoll,  AugustusW.] 

1851  Noble,  John  W. 

1832  Wm.  H. 

1858  [Norcutt,  Allison  H.] 

1859  Norton,  Charles  L. 
1847  Noyes,  Daniel  T. 

1849  Oakey,  John 

1860  Oberly,  Aaron  S.  m 

1860  Ogden.  Frederick  C. 

1861  Olmstead,  Sam’lH.  m 
1863  [Orth,  Harry  L.] 

1863  [Osgood,  James  S.] 

1835  Oviatt,  George  A. 
1860  Owen,  Charles  H. 
1865  Page,  Henry  A.  m 
1860  William  C  l 
1841  Paine,  Albert 

1854  Palmer,  William  H. 

1847  Parker,  Edward  G. 

1864  [Parkman,  Chas.  B  ] 
1863  [Parmelee,  Uriah  N.] 

1865  [Parsons,  Albert  R.J 

1860  John  R. 

1840  Lewis  B. 

1863  [Partridge,  Chas.  A.] 
1863  [Payne,  Oliver  H.] 

1861  Payson,  Edward  P. 
1856  Pease,  George  E.  H. 
1856  Peck,  Frank  H. 

1839  Horace  C. 

1858  Peirce,  Luther  H. 
1849  Perkins,  MosesH.  m 

1848  Samuel  C. 

1858  Thomas  A. 

1854  Pettibone.  Ira  W. 
1860  Phelps,  George  D. 

1855  Piatt,  John  H. 

1855  Pierce,  Granville  T. 
1804  Pierpont,  John 
1868  [Pierson,  Stephen] 

1836  William  S. 


1856  [Platt,  Horton  R.] 
1861  Plumb,  Henry  m 

1855  [Porter,  Charles  H.]  p 

1857  Edward  L. 

1861  Horace  P.  m 

1864  [  Thomas  A.] 

1860  Post,  Isaac  J. 

1859  Truman  A. 

1854  Potter,  Leander  H. 
1837  Pratt.  Ambrose 

1867  [  Edwin  C.] 

1858  Electus  A. 

1858  Henry  A. 

1861  James  P. 

1856  Price,  John  T. 

1864  Pugsley,  Isaac  P. 
1866  [Pumpelly,  Geo.  B.]^> 
1864  [Randall.  John  F.] 

1861  Raymond,  C.  H.  p 
1845  Redfield,  James 
1848  Reynolds,  Charles  O. 

1854  Rice,  James  C. 

1859  William  H. 
1858  Richards,  Channing 

1856  Richardson,  David  P. 

1858  Riley,  Isaac 

1862  Ripley,  George  C. 

1868  [Robbins,  Thos.  H.] 
1862  [Robert,  Charles  S.] 

1857  Roberts,  George  W. 

1861  [  Oliver  A.] 

1859  Willian?  J. 
1852  Robinson,  Samuel  C. 

1855  Rockwell.  Alfred  P. 

1843  [  Chas.  H]  p 

1866  [  Jos.  P.]  p 

1844  Rogers,  Charles  H. 

1860  Joseph  A. p 
1852  Root,  Nathan rl  W.  T. 
1852  Ross,  William  B. 

1845  Rossell,  William  H.ra 

1862  Rowe,  Charles  H. 

1858  Royer,  Henry 

1842  Runyon  Theodore 
1858  [Russell,  Charles  H.] 
1868  [  Fred7k  W.] 

1863  [Sallade,  Madison] 
1852  Salter,  Charles  C. 

1831  Richard  H.  m 

1847  Sands,  John  D.  t 
1863  [Sanford,  George  B.] 
1862  Saw}rer,  Leicester  J.  t 

1861  Schmucker  Francis  R. 

1860  Schneider,  James  H. 

1861  Schoonmaker.  S.  F. 

1858  Scott,  Eben  G. 

1860  [  Kidder  M.] 

1859  [Searle,  Daniel  W.] 
1868  [Sears,  Joseph  IT.] 
1855  Seely,  Franklin  A. 

1862  Shearer,  Albert  B. 


1844  Sheldon,  James  A. 

1861  Winthrop  D. 
1840  Shelton,  Charles  S. 
1864  Shepard,  Durell  m 

1856  SarnTB.  m 

1862  Shiverick,  Andrew  F. 
1854  [Shurtleff,  Wm.  S.] 

1860  [Silliman,  William]  l 

1864  [Simonds,  Wm.  E.]  I 

1861  [Skelding,  Thomas] 

1862  Skinner,  Richard 

1842  Samuel  W. 

1854  Slade,  Francis  H. 
1867  [Smith  Benjamin] 

1865  Charles  E. 

1851  David  P. 

1858  George  F. 

1839  L.  Ward. 

1852  x  Moses 

1853  [  Nathaniel]  l 

1863  [  William  F.] 

1859  [  Wm.  McC.]  I 

1858  [Smyser.  Jacob  H.] 

1851  Soule,  William  m 

1857  Southwick,WarrenK. 

1854  Sparrow,  Orson  C. 
1853  Spooner.  Samuel  B. 

1864  Sprague,  DeWitt  C.  I 

1867  [  Franklin  M.] 

1852  Homer  B. 

1859  Stanton,  Alex’r  H. 

1861  Charles  T. 

1862  [Stanwood,  Frank] 
1862  [Starr,  Grosvenor] 

1860  Pierre  S. 

1837  Stearns,  Charles  W. 

1853  Henry  P. 

1862  Sterling,  Francis  N. 

1858  [Stevens,  Eugene  R.] 

1858  Fred’k  W. 

1862  [Stewart,  Edwin] 
1856  Stickney,  John  B. 

1851  Stiles,  R.  Cre&son 

1864  [Stille,  Henry  M.] 

1863  Stimson,  Lewis  A. 

1861  Stocking  Gilbert  M. 

1865  William 
1837  Stone,  Andrew  L. 

1862  [  Henry  V.  D.]p 

1865  James  B.  p 

1852  Storrs,  Melanchthon 

1855  Stuart,  George 

1831  James  C. 

1862  Sumner,  Charles  B. 

1855  Edwin  G.  m 

1856  S wayne,  Wager 
1860  [Sweet,  Wm.  H.  S.] 
1852  Swift,  Frederick  B. 

1864  [Sylvester,  Geo.  P.] 

1865  [Taintor,  Henry  E.] 

1863  [Talcott,  Arth.  DeN.] 


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1859  Tatum,  Joseph  T. 

1828  Taylor,  Fitch  W. 

1844  Nathaniel  W. 

1855  William  H. 

1861  [Temple,  William  J.] 

1 863  Tennant,  Charles  J.  m 

1852  Terry  Adrian 
1849  [  Alfred  H.]  I 

1862  J.Wadsw’th  m 
1862  Thayer,  Henry  W. 

1857  Thomas,  George  B. 

1868  [  Nath.  P.  S.J 

1861  Thompson,  HeberS. 

1865  [  '  John  H.] 

1866  [  Jos.  P.] 

1862  Thomson,  Wm.  H.  m 

1864  Tiffany,  Henry  D.  p 
1868  [Timmerman,  IT.  S.] 

1858  (Titus,  Herbert  B.] 

1858  Tomlinson,  Charles 

1863  Treadway,  Fred.  S.ra 

1865  Treadwell.  George  E 

1865  John  H.  p 

1855  Trowbridge,  W.  H.m 
1851  Tuekerman,  Geo.  S. 

1864  Turrill,  Henry  S.  m 

1863  Tuttle,  Lucius  B.  I 
1863  [  Moses  H.] 

1859  Twichell,  Joseph  II. 

1859  Twining, S.Douglas  p 
1858  '  Theodore  W. 

1853  Tyler,  Charles  M 

1861  John  C. 

1829  Ullmann,  Daniel 
1853  Upham,  Nathan  l 
1849  Upson,  Andrew 


1859  Upson,  Henry 

1851  VanBlarcom,  James 

1864  Van  Harlingen.  Ar.  p 
1864  [  Martin  jp] 

1863  [Verplanck, Abm.  G.J 
1830  [Wadsworth,  J.  S.]  / 

1853  Waite,  Richard 

1845  Wales,  Leonard  E. 
1867  [Walker,  Charles  S.] 
1856  Edward  A. 

1863  Ward,  Charles  S.  m 
1863  Waterman,  Henry  B. 

1859  Watkins,  Hezekiah 

1860  Wav,  Francis  R. 

1863  Webster,  Charles 

1861  John  R. 

1843  Weeks,  Henry  A. 
1860  Welch,  John  B.  m 
1850  Moses  C. 

1854  Weld,  Lewis  L. 

1852  Mason  C.  p 

1858  Wells,  Gideon 

1859  [Wesson.  George  M.] 

1862  [West,  William  F.]  p 

1859  Wheeler.  Charles  M 

1858  John  D.  p 

1855  William 

1860  Xenophon 
1854  White,  Erskine  N. 

1861  James  H. 

1864  Whitne}r,  Henry  M. 

1863  [  Stephen] 

1865  [  Wm  M.] 

1853  [Whittelsey,  Chs.  H.] 
1858  Whittlesey,  Chas.  B. 

1 842  Eliphalet 


1844  Whittlesey,  Jolm  S.  t 

1858  Wilbur,  Albert  B. 

1850  [Wilcox,  James  A.] 
1863  Wildman,  Joel  T. 

1855  Willets.  Andrew  J. 

1857  Willey,  Nathan 
1831  Williams,  Alpheus  S. 
1852  [  George  S  ] 

1861  Ralph  0. 

1860  Willson,  Robert  N. 

1859  Wilson.  Charles  P. 

1859  Winn  Henry 

1830  [Winslow,  Gordon] 
1863  [  Myron] 

1 848  Winthrop,  Theodore 

1851  Wm.  W. 

1860  [Wiswell,  Frank  W.] 
1851  [Withington,  Nat.N.] 

1861  Witter,  Ebenezer  m 
1857  Wood,  Ephraim  M. 
1865  [  Jonathan  D.] 

1854  [Woodford.  Stew.  L.] 

1849  Woodruff,  Curtiss  T. 

1863  [  Richard  K.] 

1856  Woods,  Samuel  F. 

1845  William  B. 

1855  Woodward. Stanley!1. 

1857  Wooster,  Sam!  R.  m 

1846  Wm.  B.  I 

1863  Worman,  Amos 
1861  George 

1860  Worthington,  Lew.  S. 
1848  Wright,  Dexter  R.  I 
1868  [  Henry  P.] 

1863  Young,  Thomas 


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